General reaction from clinicians to the #BawaGarba case:
'If you're going to prosecute us, we're going to cover up more. These are unintended consequences.'
General reaction from NHS complainants:
'And? You've been doing that for decades anyway. Nothing unintended about it.'
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Replying to @C7RKY
Agree that’s how it looks. But there really has been a drive recently for more openness, learning culture, looking at systemic problems rather than a “culture of blame” etc, and I think this outcome has driven that back. Good summary of the concerns here:pic.twitter.com/BXAm01XL36
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Replying to @jim_crawfurd
I actually think current duty of candour efforts are largely superficial tbh, Jim. And I believe that is what prompts people to head for the courts. I don't want to criminalise medical error - on the contrary. But I DO want to criminalise lack of candour. Needs a radical rethink.
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Replying to @C7RKY
Totally agree. Key issue is for duty of candour to apply primarily to the trust as well as the individual. An individual clinician meeting that duty of candour needs to know that the trust will not hang them out to dry to save it’s own blushes.
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Understood. In statutory terms it already applies to the trust - for all the good that does. Perhaps if the individual statutory duty that Francis originally called for had been implemented, (instead of being fudged by Hunt into an organisational one), things would be different?
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