Patient safety

Duty of candour could lead to criminal prosecution

By 2013-03-26T17:27:00

Jeremy Hunt

Source: PA

Boards of organisations providing NHS care which breach the government’s proposed new statutory duty of candour could face criminal prosecution.

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