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What’s New? The Board The Kirklees Safeguarding Adults Board brings together the main organisations working with adults at risk including the local authority, West Yorkshire Police and health agencies. Its core purpose is to help and protect adults at risk in its area. The board has overall governance of the policy, practice and implementation for safeguarding. It also has a key role in promoting the wider agenda so that safeguarding is a responsibility for everyone. From April 2015 the board has statutory status, and much of the board’s work during the last twelve months has been to ensure it meets the requirements of the Care Act 2014. The Act introduces the first statutory framework for protecting adults from abuse and neglect and includes: • A new duty for a local authority to carry out enquiries (or cause others to) where it suspects an adult is at risk of abuse or neglect. • A requirement for all areas to establish a Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) to bring together Local Authority, NHS and the police (these agencies are now statutory partners) to coordinate activity to protect adults from abuse and neglect. • A requirement for Safeguarding Adults Boards to carry out safeguarding adults reviews into cases where someone who is experiencing abuse or neglect dies or there is concern about how authorities acted, to ensure lessons are learned. • Safeguarding Adults Boards can require information sharing from other partners to support reviews or other functions. • In addition, Care Act guidance requires boards (statutory partners) to have initial arrangements in place to undertake the function of a new role - the Designated Adults Safeguarding Manager. This function is at the very early stages of development and is subject to further national guidance. Although it is not a requirement, the local authority has appointed an independent chair to the Safeguarding Adult Board who is not an employee of an agency that is a member of the board. This is to provide reassurance that the board has some independence from the local authority and other partners. NEWS NEWS FLASH FLASH Making safeguarding personal - ”adapt to how the person communicates, using their language, plain English / whatever form of communication they use” 6
What’s New? What is the DUTY OF CANDOUR? “Openness and honesty when things go wrong: the professional duty of candour” Section 81 of the Care Act sets out the statutory duty of candour on providers of health care and adult social care services registered with the Care Quality Commission Providers of care regulated by the CQC have a duty to report to them any allegations of abuse or neglect. See http://bit.ly/1FW9p43 In addition, in June 2015 the Nursing and Midwifery Council (‘NMC’) and the General Medical Council (‘GMC’) issued new guidance out the standards expected of doctors, nurses and midwives in respect of their professional duty of candour. Under the new guidance doctors, nurses and midwives should: • Speak to a patient, or those close to them, as soon as possible after they realise something has gone wrong with their care. • Apologise to the patient - explain what happened, what can be done if they have suffered harm and what will be done to prevent someone else being harmed in the future. • Use their professional judgement about whether to inform patients about near misses – incidents which have the potential to result in harm but do not. • Report errors at an early stage so that lessons can be learned quickly, and patients are protected from harm in the future. • <strong>No</strong>t try to prevent colleagues or former colleagues from raising concerns about patient safety All healthcare professionals have long had a professional responsibility to be honest with people in their care when things go wrong, but this new guidance is the latest step in the responses to the well-documented failings at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The challenge remains for us all is to embrace the opportunities for openness provided by the new guidance and for organisations to support a culture built on improvement through learning from mistakes. See http://bit.ly/1LDIMlo Openness and honesty when things go wrong: the professional duty of candour The professional duty of candour 1 Every healthcare professional must be open and honest with patients when something that goes wrong with their treatment or care causes, or has the potential to cause, harm or distress. This means that healthcare professionals must: ■ ■ tell the patient (or, where appropriate, the patient’s advocate, carer or family) when something has gone wrong ■■ apologise to the patient (or, where appropriate, the patient’s advocate, carer or family) ■■ offer an appropriate remedy or support to put matters right (if possible) ■■ explain fully to the patient (or, where appropriate, the patient’s advocate, carer or family) the short and long term effects of what has happened. Healthcare professionals must also be open and honest with their colleagues, employers and relevant organisations, and take part in reviews and investigations when requested. They must also be open and honest with their regulators, raising concerns where appropriate. They must support and encourage each other to be open and honest, and not stop someone from raising concerns. About this guidance 1 All healthcare professionals have a duty of candour – a professional responsibility to be honest with patients * when things go wrong. This is described in The professional duty of candour, which introduces this guidance and forms part of a joint statement from eight regulators of healthcare professionals in the UK. 2 As a doctor, nurse or midwife, you must be open and honest with patients, colleagues and your employers. 3 This guidance complements the joint statement from the healthcare regulators and gives more information about how to follow the principles set out in Good medical practice 2 and The Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives. 3 Appendix 1 sets out relevant extracts from General Medical Council (GMC) and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidance. This guidance applies to all doctors registered with the GMC and all nurses and midwives registered with the NMC across the UK. * When we refer to ‘patients’ in this guidance, we also mean people who are in your care. 1 NEWS NEWS FLASH FLASH Making safeguarding personal - ”ask questions” 7
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