It suggested that there needs to be a fundamental change in culture, so that the welfare of patients is always the first concern, and also made a total of recommendations, covering many aspects of patient care and safety.
The most important of these, particularly in terms of medicolegal issues, are summarised below. In order to achieve this, three characteristics are needed:. The duty of candour places a legal obligation on health service providers and organisations to be honest, open and truthful in all their dealings with patients and relatives, especially when mistakes occur. In addition, healthcare organisations must make truthful statements to regulators and the public, and must not mislead by omitting relevant facts.
However, the provision of information in order to comply with this requirement should not be regarded as evidence or an admission of liability. If an individual or organisation is non-compliant, the patient should be able to seek resolution. To further aid the culture of openness, the report also recommended that gagging and non-disparagement clauses in contracts, which limit the legitimate disclosure of issues of patient safety and care that may be in the public interest, should be banned.
To improve safety further, a more proactive approach is needed — identifying where things could go wrong and taking action to prevent this happening. Through our improvement programmes we are testing and developing ways to support proactive approaches to managing safety. Which improvement approaches have the potential to increase productivity in the NHS? Tim Horton, During the pandemic, the NHS has rolled out technologies at impressive speed.
But what will need Over the past decade, the Health Foundation has supported front-line teams working in different The Health Foundation has captured some of the experiences of those working on the vanguard sites of The Francis Inquiry report was published on 6 February and examined the causes of the failings This guide aims to support NHS organisations to apply a framework for measuring and monitoring This webinar will explore what the Spending Review and the future funding picture means for the NHS, Health Foundation HealthFdn.
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Please upgrade your browser. Breadcrumb Home. About the Francis Inquiry. Patient safety. The report makes recommendations, including: openness, transparency and candour throughout the health care system including a statutory duty of candour , fundamental standards for health care providers improved support for compassionate caring and committed care and stronger health care leadership. View the report Infographic: A commitment to act? Progress since the Berwick report 19 November We, in partnership with Monitor and the Trust Development Authority, undertook a survey to assess the progress made against the recommendations in the Berwick review, A promise to learn — a commitment to act.
UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Plans announced to make the NHS more open, more accountable and more focused on safety and compassion. This was published under the to Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government. The government has published a full response to the recommendations made by Robert Francis, following the public inquiry in to the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
The system failed and it was a preventable tragedy. This includes, but is not limited to: Duty of candour We completed joint work with other regulators on a consistent approach to a duty of candour for healthcare professionals. A revised Code We undertook a two-part consultation across a range of stakeholders and used their feedback to shape a revised Code.
Closer working with other regulators We are refreshing MoUs memoranda of understanding with a number of regulators and implementing new MoUs to enhance patient safety.
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