Organisational Duty of Candour: non-statutory guidance - revised March 2025

Annex F – Key Links

**Links confirmed active on 12 February 2025

Professional Duty of Candour – Regulators’ guidance

• General Medical Council: The professional duty of candour - professional standards - GMC (gmc-uk.org)^[34]
• Nursing & Midwifery Council: openness-and-honesty-professional-duty-of-candour.pdf (nmc.org.uk)^[35]
• General Chiropractic Council – Guidance on Candour: Candour_Guidance_2023.pdf^[36]
• General Dental Council – Being open and honest with patients when something goes wrong: Being open and honest (gdc-uk.org)^[37]
• General Optical Council: Supplementary guidance on the professional duty of candour^[38]
• General Osteopathic Council: Standards of practice - General Osteopathic Council (osteopathy.org.uk)^[39]
• General Pharmaceutical Council – Standards for pharmacy professionals: Keeping patients safe: being open and honest when things go wrong (pharmacyregulation.org)^[40] and Pharmacy team toolkit: learning from incidents (pharmacyregulation.org)^[41]

Further Resources

• sample annual reports (examples of best practice): Duty of Candour Reporting and Monitoring Sub-Group Report on Discussions and Final Recommendations^[42]
• Turas (including factsheets and e-learning module):Duty of candour | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot)^[43]
• The Scottish Government: Duty of Candour - Healthcare standards - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)^[44]
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland: Being Open in NHSScotland - Guidance on implementing the Being Open principles^[45]
• Care Inspectorate: www.careinspectorate.com
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland: www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org
• Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance: https://www.siaa.org.uk/
• AvMA – Independent advice and support to people affected by medical accidents: https://www.avma.org.uk/
• NMC/GMC: Openness and honesty when things go wrong: the professional duty of candour^[46]
• Scottish Public Services Ombudsman: Meaningful apologies | SPSO^[47]
• Royal College of Surgeons: Guidance for Surgeons and Employers^[48]
• National Patient Safety Agency: The Incident Decision Tree: Guidelines for Action Following Patient Safety Incidents^[49]
• British Journal of Radiology: Duty of candour and the definition of moderate harm for radiation overexposure and exposures much greater than intended in diagnostic radiology - PMC (nih.gov)^[50]
• GMC: Circumstances that affect the decision-making process – lack of capacity^[51]
• Royal College of Nursing: https://www.rcn.org.uk
• NHS Scotland – Turas: SEIPS | Systems Resources | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot)^[52] and Just culture | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot)^[53]