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Wednesday, 31 March 2010
- Paula M
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Tom Brake, MP has tabled this EDM calling for a statutory Duty of Candour with patients/families over incidents that cause harm in healthcare. Please urge your MP and any others you know to sign this EDM. As you know, no such duty currently exists and, to make matters worse, the new registration regulations for the Care Quality Commission make it a statutory duty for healthcare organisations to report such incidents (anonymously) to the National Patient Safety Agency, whilst explicitly omitting any corresponding duty to be open and honest with patients! Ministers have promised to review this bizarre situation, and so a large number of signatories to this EDM can really make a difference.
To see the text of the EDM and signatories so far, click here
For a sample letter that you can use to write to your MP click here
To see AvMA's briefing on the need for a Duty of Candour click here
(Re-posted by K&C LINk on behalf of AvMA)
