Public Consultation on the introduction of a statutory Duty of Candour in Northern Ireland

Overview

Since Justice O’Hara’s Hyponatraemia Inquiry Report was published in 2018, Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland has responded to the challenges laid out so clearly to change the culture and behaviours that had led, two decades before, to five avoidable children’s deaths.  However, as we have seen in a number of recent highprofile cases, there is still work to be done in order to ensure a consistently open and honest health and social care service.