Duty of candour resources for consumers
info HIC2023-03-23T14:30:00+11:00On November 30 2022, Victoria passed new legislation which requires health services to organise a Duty of candour with patients and their families/carers if a serious adverse patient safety event (SAPSE) occurs. All of which can sound a little confusing. Empowering patients, carers and their families if significant harm occurs To help demystify this new legislation and what it means for patients and their family/carers, Health Issues Centre and Safer Care Victoria worked in partnership with a passionate group of consumers who had experienced a SAPSE. Those with lived experience were crucial to the development of resources for patients and families/carers [...]