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Duty of Candour Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish its final response to its Duty of candour review.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
20 Mar 2025
Answer
28 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish its final response to its Duty of candour review.

  2. 20 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is supportive of the review it inherited into the effectiveness and implementation of the statutory duty of candour for health and social care providers.We are clear that the duty needs to act as a catalyst for providers to improve openness...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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