Tag
Criminal Liability
3 recommendations
67% accepted
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recommendation across 1 inquiry
Across 1 inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
Criminal liability
It should be made a criminal offence for any registered medical practitioner, or nurse, or allied health professional or director of an authorised or registered healthcare organisation: Knowingly to obstruct …
- The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (sections 20-21), which received Royal Assent on 12 February 2015, created two new criminal offences directly relevant …
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Accountability for quality accounts
It should be a criminal offence for a director to sign a declaration of belief that the contents of a quality account are true if it contains a misstatement of …
- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, November 2013). …
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Sanctions and interventions for non-compliance
It should be an offence for death or serious injury to be caused to a patient by a breach of these regulatory requirements, or, in any other case of breach, …
- Regulation 22 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 created an offence where failure to comply with a fundamental …
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