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Duty of candour. In UK public law, the duty of candour is the duty imposed on a public authority 'not to seek to win [a] litigation at all costs but to assist the court in reaching the correct result and thereby to improve standards in public administration'. [1] Lord Donaldson MR in R v Lancashire County Council ex p.
The deaths of Child O and Child P on successive days in 2016 led to the removal of the nurse from the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the regulator for nursing and midwifery professions in the UK. The NMC maintains a register of all nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses and nursing associates eligible to practise within the UK. It sets and reviews standards for their education, training, conduct and performance.
The Doctors’ Association UK, a campaign and lobbying group for Doctors and the NHS campaigned to raise awareness of system failures in the case. [ 32 ] During the period that the MPTS and GMC suspended and then erased Dr Bawa-Garba, confidence among doctors in England that the GMC is regulating doctors well and that its procedures are fair ...
The "supposed" NHS duty of candour was "certainly not honoured" by the Countess of Chester Hospital, the parents of two triplets murdered by Lucy Letby have told a public inquiry. The deaths of ...
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The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c 7) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provided for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date. [1] It removed responsibility for the health of citizens from the Secretary of State for Health, which the post had carried since the ...
The Stafford Hospital scandal concerns poor care and high mortality rates amongst patients at the Stafford Hospital, Stafford, England, during the first decade of the 21st century. The hospital was run by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, and supervised by the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority. It has been renamed County Hospital.