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There is also a duty of candour referred to in various contexts as a professional, contractual or statutory duty, [3] which is imposed on all NHS and non-NHS providers of services to NHS patients in the UK to "provide to the service user and any other relevant person all necessary support and all relevant information" in the event that a ...
In 2019, it was fined a total of £16,250 for 13 separate breaches of the NHS statutory duty of candour after it failed to notify the patient or their family of the facts available in a safety investigation as soon as reasonably possible. [16] Performance against the four-hour target improved from 56.6% in February 2018 to 94.1% in April.
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.
Academics at the University of Oxford and King's College London have criticised the recommendations of the Francis inquiry to legally enforce a new duty of openness, transparency and candour amongst NHS staff, arguing that increasing 'micro-regulation' may produce serious unintended consequences. [24]
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The updates include new requirements on the fundamentals of care, the duty of candour, raising concerns and social media use. The introduction to the code states: “When joining our register, and then renewing their registration, nurses and midwives commit to upholding these standards.
He was said by the Health Service Journal to be the seventh-most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013, [11] and in 2015 the fifth. [12] In January 2014, he supported a wide definition for the statutory duty of candour which was recommended by the Francis Report. [13]
Clinical governance is a systematic approach to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care within the National Health Service (NHS) and private sector health care. Clinical governance became important in health care after the Bristol heart scandal in 1995, during which an anaesthetist, Dr Stephen Bolsin , exposed the high mortality ...