Court of Justice of the European Union
(asked on )
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, from what date the statutory duty of candour will be implemented; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 7th May 2014
We announced, in ‘Hard Truths' the Government's response to the Mid Staffordshire public inquiry, that “subject to Parliamentary approval from 2014 every organisation registered with the Care Quality Commission will be expected to meet a new duty of candour”.