Mothers Instinct: Reframing Duty of Candour in our hearts and minds – a blog by Joanne Hughes (15 October 2020)

Summary

"Healthcare systems need to act in equal measures to both enable the recovery of patients and families it has harmed, and to protect future patients.... Yet providing what is set out in the Duty of Candour to harmed patients has not been framed as providing care to make sick or injured people better and/or to minimise their pain and suffering."

In this blog, Jo Hughes explains why we need to reframe the Duty of Candour and explores what needs to change.