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  • Scottish government legislates for Duty of Candour

    June 5, 2015

    The Scottish Government has published a Health Bill including provision for a statutory duty of candour.  This follows a consultation last year following years of campaigning North and South of the border by AvMA, and the recent introduction of a statutory duty of candour in England.

  • AvMA Response to Department of Health’s “Freedom to speak up proposals”

    June 4, 2015

    AvMA has submitted its response to consultation held by the Department of Health on its proposals for taking forward the “Freedom to Speak Up” proposals made by Sir Robert Francis last year.  AvMA has made further suggestions for supporting and protecting staff who raise concerns and treating whistleblowers fairly.

  • Government plans to water down the Duty of Candour for primary care and private healthcare

    March 5, 2015

    AvMA will today make a public demand for the Government to change controversial plans to water down the statutory Duty of Candour that will apply to providers of NHS primary care (GPs, dentists and pharmacists) and in private healthcare. Read full Press Release.

  • Morecambe Bay Report highlights repeated failures to be open and honest

    March 3, 2015

    AvMA welcomes Professor Kirkup’s report published today, but has called for action at a national level to ensure individual maternity services, regulators and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman learn from the tragedy at Morecambe Bay.  Read full Press Release.

  • Medical Innovation Bill Averted

    March 1, 2015

    AvMA welcomes reports that the Medical Innovation Bill will not proceed and that instead there will be an independent review to report on what the real barriers to medical innovation might be and how it can be supported. That is something AvMA had argued was a better approach all along. The majority of leading patients’ […]

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