“The murder of a woman confronted by her husband with evidence of an affair from a private investigator was ‘not preventable’, a report has found.”
BBC News, 27th September 2013
Surce: www.bbc.co.uk
“The High Court has strongly affirmed the prohibition against the pursuit of long delayed complaints against doctors in regulatory proceedings. The prohibition arose from the General Medical Council’s own procedural rules. It applied even where the allegations were of the most serious kind, including sexual misconduct, and could only be waived in exceptional circumstances and where the public interest demanded. The burden was upon the GMC to establish a sufficiently compelling public interest where allegations had already been thoroughly investigated by the competent authorities such as the police and social services.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th September 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The investigation into the Mid-Staffs scandal was branded a ‘whitewash’ after regulators abandoned efforts to pursue the last of 44 doctors accused of failing patients.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A government minister has asked the regulatory bodies for doctors and nurses to clarify their guidance on the wearing of veils after concerns that patients may be denied face-to-face contact with the person treating them.”
The Guardian, 19th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A review is being launched into health service guidelines on full-face veils to ensure that patients always have ‘appropriate face-to-face contact’, it has emerged.”
The Guardian, 19th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The chief executive of Britain’s biggest abortion charity has said women are legally free to arrange an abortion because they are unhappy with the sex of their unborn baby.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An alliance of 50 MPs on Saturday accuses the Crown Prosecution Service of an ‘unconstitutional’ encroachment on the role of Parliament by refusing to bring charges against doctors linked to illegal abortions.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A GP who sexually assaulted and took intimate pictures of women and child patients has been jailed for six years.”
BBC News, 9th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Medical regulators are to be given new powers to prevent European doctors treating patients in Britain before they have proved their ability to speak English as a four-year battle to ensure tougher language checks on all overseas medics enters its final stages.”
The Guardian, 7th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has been accused of ‘double standards’ over abortion laws as campaign groups detailed how it brought criminal charges against a string of pro-life protesters yet refused to prosecute doctors over illegal practices.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A health board’s out-of-hours service has been criticised after a woman died hours after a GP in Carmarthen failed to diagnose sepsis.”
BBC News, 28th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Surgeons, dentists, midwives and other healthcare workers who have HIV are to be allowed to perform all kinds of procedures on patients, following the lifting of an outdated ban that led in some cases to the loss of careers and livelihoods.”
The Guardian, 15th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“GP practices could face prosecution under the Data Protection Act if they do not take steps to inform patients that data will be taken from their records and used by the NHS and private companies from this autumn.”
The Independent, 6th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Review says NHS staff responsible for ‘recklessness or wilful neglect’ of patient safety should face jail.”
The Independent, 6th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Related link: Improving the Safety of Patients in England (PDF)
“Three Nottinghamshire police officers have been disciplined over their parts in the treatment of a ‘vulnerable’ pregnant woman when she was arrested.”
BBC News, 27th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The purpose of this lecture is to attempt to look at the big themes in healthcare law in order to understand how the legal structure of the NHS has changed as a result of the passing and almost complete implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Inevitably there are other factors that change the NHS at the same time and I will attempt to weave in these other factors at an appropriate place.”
No. 5 Chambers, 26th June 2013
Source: www.no5.com
“You would have thought the law would be entirely behind a person who intervenes to help a stranger in distress. Indeed most civil law countries impose a positive duty to rescue, which means that if a person finds someone in need of medical help, he or she must take all reasonable steps to seek medical care and render best-effort first aid. A famous example of this was the investigation into the photographers at the scene of Lady Diana’s fatal car accident: they were suspected of violation of the French law of “non-assistance à personne en danger” (deliberately failing to provide assistance to a person in danger), which can be punished by up to 5 years imprisonment and a fine of up to 70,000 euros. But the position in common law countries like the UK and the United States is completely different: you can watch a child drown and not be held to account.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Dr Hans-Christian Raabe lost his judicial review challenge to the revocation of his appointment as the GP member of the Government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). His appointment was revoked less than a month after he had accepted an offer to join the ACMD, as a result of certain views about homosexuality expressed in a paper he had co-written in Canada some 6 years earlier.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Medical bodies plan to publish updated guidance by end of year after deciding not to wait for conclusion of Janet Tracey case.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The answer of the Court was that clear and express words in the contract would be required in order to confer a power to increase a sanction on an Appeal Panel.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
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