Duty of candour: Ministers to review varying application in health and care
The government is to launch a review into the variation in how open and transparent NHS and social care providers in England are with patients when things go wrong. In a written statement to the House of Commons the health minister Maria Caulfield said that the Department of Health and Social Care will lead a review into the “effectiveness of the statutory duty of candour for health and social care providers in England.”1 The announcement was welcomed by …