Sorry seems to be the hardest word: Leo Varadkar’s U-turn

Varadkar vowed last February to legislate to make open disclosure a legal requirement

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar

Plans to introduce legislation that would force doctors and nurses to admit mistakes have been abandoned.

The U-turn will be a disappointment to patient groups, who had welcomed Minister for Health Leo Varadkar’s promise to legislate to make open disclosure and a duty of candour a legal requirement.

During an appearance at the Oireachtas health committee last February, Varadkar said the failure of doctors and nurses to make such disclosures was the equivalent ...