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Doctors must learn from mistakes, says Hunt
Speaking on BBC’s Today programme on 26 January, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt commented that doctors need to be able to openly reflect about mistakes they have made.
In light of the recent case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off after being found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a six-year-old boy, Hunt said that patients would be safer if doctors were able to learn from mistakes.
Bawa-Garba was originally suspended from the medical register for 12 months last June by a tribunal, but has since been removed from the medical register completely following a High Court appeal by the General Medical Council, who said that the the original decision was ‘not sufficient to protect the public’.
He told the BBC: “In medicine, all over the world there are always going to be mistakes made. For patients to be safe, we need doctors to be able to reflect completely openly and freely about what they have done, to learn from mistakes, to spread best practice around the system, to talk openly with their colleagues. I want to make sure doctors are able to do that.”
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