PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Teresa Inkster
AU  - John Cuddihy
TI  - Duty of candour and communication during an infection control incident in a paediatric ward of a Scottish hospital: how can we do better?
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2020-106862
DP  - 2022 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 160--164
VI  - 48
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/3/160.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/3/160.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2022 Mar 01; 48
AB  - Duty of candour legislation was introduced in Scotland in 2018. However, literature and experience of duty of candour when applied to infection control incidents/outbreaks is scarce. We describe clinician and parental perspectives with regard to duty of candour and communication during a significant infection control incident in a haemato-oncology ward of a children’s hospital. Based on the learning from this incident, we make recommendations for duty of candour and communication to patients and families during future infection control incidents. These include the need to consider a crisis management approach, the importance of not underestimating psychological harm in incidents of a prolonged duration and embedding the existing legislation pertaining to the rights of the child.There are no data in this work