Legal Responsibility and Duty of Care

Question 1

What is Duty of CARE?

Answer 1

Duty of Care – A duty of care is a legal duty to provide a reasonable standard of care to your patients and to act in ways that protect their safety.To fufull this you must be – competent in your actions.

Question 2

Who are you responsible for if you dont behave competently?

Answer 2

• Patient
• Criminal courts
• Civil Court
• Employer
• Professional Body

Question 3

To be negligence what must happen ?

Answer 3

1- A duty of care to the person
2- You must breach that duty
3- The breach must directly cause injury.

Question 4

What is Duty of Candour ?

Answer 4

• The duty of candour is a legal duty on hospital, community, and mental health trusts to infrom and apologise to patients if there have been mistakes in their care and have led to significant harm.
• The professional duty ot be open and honest with patients when things go wrong and a patient suffers harm as a consequence.