Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:35

From: Steve Hedley

Subject: Good news/bad news

I doubt very much whether the letter giving the "good news/bad news" patient his prognosis contained a disclaimer. This is not standard practice in the NHS

If that is the case then the NHS should change its standard practice, as this case demonstrates. If this is standard practice in all cases, they are badly advised.

No doubt it would be possible to frame letters in a standard way which ensured that no reasonable person would rely on them, but is it really in the NHS's best interests to do this?

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