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Organisational duty of candour: guidance

This guidance focuses on the implementation of the legal duty of candour procedure for health, care or social work services.

Further sources of support

Little Things Make a Big Difference (including factsheets and e-learning module) www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/making-a-difference.aspx

Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance https://www.siaa.org.uk/

AvMA – Independent advice and support to people affected by medical accidents https://www.avma.org.uk/

NMC/ GMC Openness and honesty when things go wrong: the professional duty of candour https://www.gmc-uk.org/DoC_guidance_englsih.pdf_61618688.pdf

National Patient Safety Agency – The Incident Decision Tree http://www.nrls.npsa.nhs.uk/resources/?EntryId45=59900

Duty of candour and the definition of moderate harm for radiation overexposure and exposures much greater than intended in diagnostic radiology http://www.birpublications.org/doi/10.1259/bjr.20130555

GMC – Flowchart for decision making when patients may lack capacity https://www.gmc-uk.org/Flowchart_A4_mental_capacity.pdf_66641056.pdf

Scottish Association of Social Workers https://www.basw.co.uk/scotland/

Royal College of Nursing https://www.rcn.org.uk

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