#Francis called for a statutory individual duty of candour for doctors. This would make it unlawful to lie to a patient or their family
We didn't get it.
Instead, we were given a fudged organisational duty of candour. Here's how well that's going. >https://twitter.com/Allyncondon/status/937818531642642432 …
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Replying to @C7RKY
John, the Health Select Committee recommended a statutory Duty of Candour more than a decade before Mid Staffs. The inquiry was set up as a consequence of Robbie's perverse 1997 Court of Appeal ruling that doctors had no legal duty to tell the truth after a child's neg death!pic.twitter.com/8ZVT5ZI9mB
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Replying to @willcpowell
I can't quite believe it after the amount I've read on your case over the years Will, but I actually didn't know that! Amazing.
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