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To: Department of Health
Robbie's Law - A Legal 'Duty of Candour' for all Healthcare Professionals
We want the Government to create a law to make it a legal requirement to inform patients or next of kin of errors or incidents which may cause serious harm or death. A Legal 'Duty of Candour'. Please sign: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/34926
Doctors have no duty to give parents of a child who died as a result of their negligence, a truthful account of the circumstances of the death. Nor even to refrain from deliberately falsifying records."
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May 2000.
Why is this important?
Currently, any Healthcare Professional causing the negligent death of a patient is not legally obliged to be Open, Honest & Transparent with bereaved relatives or to refrain falsifying the deceased patient’s medical records. Please sign http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/34926
Robbie's Law gets it's namesake from Robbie Powell, who died an unnecessary death at the age of ten, 22 years ago. Due to this loophole in the law, at every turn his death has been swept under the rug. His family and thousands of others have endured years of grief, injustice and frustration. Robbie’s family continues to campaign 22 years on, not only for justice for Robbie, but to ensure other families don't have their grief exacerbated by the dishonesty of the medical profession. Please sign http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/34926
How it will be delivered
We need 100,000 names by 14th June 2013 to make a difference.
PLEASE SIGN OUR GOVERNMENT PETITION NOW
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/34926
