Duty Of Candour In Healthcare

EDM number 486 in 2010-12, proposed by Tom Brake on 13/07/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Health services.

That this House welcomes the commitment by the Government to introduce a requirement for hospitals to be open with patients when things go wrong; and urges the Government to take this action as soon as possible by introducing such a statutory duty as part of the registration regulations for the Care Quality Commission, to make this duty applicable to all health providers including hospitals and to make it a requirement to be open with the patient's next of kin or representative in the event of death or incapacity.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.