A consultation is currently underway on how doctors, nurses and midwifes can be more open and honest when things go wrong. The General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council have produced draft guidance on the ‘duty of candour’ for individual health professionals. The purpose of the guidance is to support doctors, nurses and …
According to the Local Government Association, an umbrella group for 370 local authorities, Ofsted is struggling for credibility among parents and councils because of its erratic judgment and needs to be overhauled. The LGA said it was “calling for an independent review of the schools watchdog’s operations, to understand what has gone wrong and to …
NHS England published an important document on 20 October 2014 which sets out both the regulatory and contractual issues which may arise following CQC inspections of GP practices. It embodies the new special measures regime but also adds important detail about how CQC, CCGs and NHS England will work together in the oversight of GP …
The enactment of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (the “Act”) was seen as a landmark change in the law – for the first time, companies and organisations could be found guilty of corporate manslaughter as a result of serious management failures resulting in a gross breach of a duty of care. However, …
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