NHS pair accused of bribery cleared after trial collapses – Daily Telegraph
‘Senior NHS officials accused of accepting £70,000 in bribes have been acquitted after their trial collapsed.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Senior NHS officials accused of accepting £70,000 in bribes have been acquitted after their trial collapsed.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A leading NHS surgeon has been censured by two medical regulators, and suspended by one of them, for repeatedly vandalising colleagues’ cars in their hospital car park, the Guardian can reveal.’
The Guardian, 6th March 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Between 1997 and 2011 there were “failures across the entire healthcare system” which included failures of a healthcare regulatory system, and failures of colleagues and managers of the disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson. These failures allowed his “shocking” malpractice to go unchecked.’
Mills & Reeve, 31st January 2022
Source: www.mills-reeve.com
‘An NHS doctor killed his partner’s father and almost caused the deaths of her and her mother by giving them a poison that is popular among murderers, a London court has ruled.’
The Guardian, 31st January 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘General Medical Council v Bramhall [2021] EWHC (2109) (Admin). In a series of acts referred to by HHJ Farrer QC as “conduct borne of professional arrogance of such magnitude that it strayed into criminal behaviour”, Mr Bramhall used an argon beam cauterising tool to sign his initials on the livers of multiple patients. In the aftermath of a criminal conviction, the General Medical Council (GMC) sought his erasure from the medical register. The MPT, disagreeing with the GMC over the severity of his actions, preferred a 5-month suspension.’
Quarterly Medical Law Review , 24th January 2022
Source: 1corqmlr.com
‘A surgeon who burned his initials on to the livers of two patients during transplant surgery has been struck off the medical register.’
The Guardian, 11th January 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Hundreds of doctors around the country, along with representative organisations, have spoken out over the High Court finding a GP negligent for advice given to a mother before conception which led to the birth of a disabled child.’
Legal Futures, 20th December 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘White v General Medical Council [2021] EWHC 3286 (Admin) (03 December 2021). A case in which the High Court reminds the regulator of requirements for imposing curbs on free speech.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th December 2021
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Medical professionals and religious leaders have warned peers against backing a fresh attempt to relax the law on assisted dying.’
BBC News, 21st October 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police forces will be able to “strong-arm” NHS bodies into handing over confidential patient data under planned laws that have sparked fury from doctors’ groups and the UK’s medical watchdog.’
The Independent, 17th October 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A Portsmouth GP has been told he could spend time behind bars after he admitted to defrauding a healthcare group out of £1.1m in just two months.’
The Independent, 22nd September 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An anaesthetist has been given a 14-and-a-half year jail sentence for injecting his partner with drugs during a series of exorcism ceremonies that left her close to death.’
The Guardian, 20th September 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The British Medical Association (BMA) has dropped its opposition to assisted dying and adopted a neutral stance on the issue.’
The Guardian, 14th September 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Remote GP appointments may have been a contributing factor in the deaths of five people who did not see their doctor face to face, a coroner has concluded.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2021
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson has launched a bid to have his conviction for putting women through unnecessary surgery overturned, in a move that has left victims devastated.’
The Independent, 14th August 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘In Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21 the Supreme Court has revisited the principles to be applied in “wrongful birth” claims: claims for the cost of bringing up a disabled child who would not have been born but for a doctor’s negligent medical advice/treatment. However, the judgment has implications beyond the world of clinical negligence litigation. The Supreme Court has taken the opportunity to clarify the components or ingredients of the tort of negligence more generally. In particular, the court has affirmed the importance of the “scope of duty” principle: a principle which limits the recoverability of damages wherever it applies.’
Quarterly Medical Law Review, 28th July 2021
Source: 1corqmlr.com
‘In this highly anticipated judgment, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal and held that the Defendant doctor was only liable for losses which fell within the scope of her duty of care, thereby significantly reducing the damages recoverable by the Claimant.’
Hailsham Chambers, 21st July 2021
Source: www.hailshamchambers.com
‘Hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants face being blocked from booking Covid vaccinations, it can be revealed, because GP surgeries are refusing to register them – in breach of official guidance.’
The Independent, 16th July 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The focus of this judgment was on the jurisdiction, if any, that the High Court Family Division has to maintain a Reporting Restriction Order (‘RRO’) prohibiting the naming of any medical clinicians as being involved in the care and treatment of a child who had been the subject of “end of life” proceedings before the High Court prior to their death, and where an RRO had been made at that time preventing the identification of any of the treating clinicians and staff until further order.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th July 2021
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com