Duty of Candour Breaches

Reference: 25-26245

Date response sent: 16/09/2025

Details of enquiry

1. Please provide the number of breaches of the statutory Duty of Candour recorded by your Trust during the financial year 2024/2025, and for each of the three previous financial years.
2. For each breach, please provide:

a. The nature of the incident (e.g., delay in disclosure, failure to apologise, etc.)

b. Whether the breach was self-reported or identified through investigation

c. Any enforcement action taken (e.g., internal disciplinary, CQC warning, fines)

3. Please confirm whether the data is provided under the Open Government Licence or the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.
4. If the information is provided under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015, as per Regulation 6, I would like to request re-use of the information for a news story.

Response sent

1. Please provide the number of breaches of the statutory Duty of Candour recorded by your Trust during the financial year 2024/2025, and for each of the three previous financial years.

The Trust confirms that there were nil breaches of the statutory Duty of Candour recorded by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust during the financial year 2024/25.

The Trust confirms that nil breaches of the statutory Duty of Candour recorded by the Trust during each of the previous three financial years

2. For each breach, please provide:

a. The nature of the incident (e.g., delay in disclosure, failure to apologise, etc.)

b. Whether the breach was self-reported or identified through investigation

c. Any enforcement action taken (e.g., internal disciplinary, CQC warning, fines)

Nil breaches occurred.  See our response to Q1 above.

3. Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, is a public sector body, covered by the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 (RPSI)

4. If the information is provided under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015, as per Regulation 6, I would like to request re-use of the information for a news story.

Responses issued to applicants under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) constitute a release of data into the unregulated public domain, and as such, any members of the public may access, and reuse data provided under FOIA.