Lord Falconer to press on assisted dying law – BBC News
“Parliament is to be asked to consider the case for legalising assisted dying for terminally ill patients who have less than six months to live.”
BBC News, 7th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: medical treatment
Keogh review of the regulation of cosmetic interventions published – Hardwicke Chambers
“The cosmetic interventions sector is widely unregulated and rapidly growing. Claims arising out of procedures going wrong – from non-surgical ‘high street’ treatments to invasive surgical procedures – are on the increase. Today [24 April] sees the long awaited publication of the Department of Health review, led by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, of the regulation of cosmetic interventions.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 24th April 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
Court of Protection Update – Family Law Week
“Sally Bradley and Michael Edwards, barristers at 4 Paper Buildings, look at recent decisions on capacity in the Court of Protection.”
Family Law Week, 12th April 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Psychiatric Asbos’ were an error says key advisor – The Independent
“Controversial powers to treat mental health patients in the community while seriously curtailing their freedoms have been criticised by one of their strongest supporters.”
The Independent, 14th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Doctors put lower value on lives of the disabled, study finds – Daily Telegraph
“NHS doctors are more likely to allow patients to die if they suffer from a mental disability, a damning Government-backed report suggests.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Legal action over Furness General Hospital deaths – BBC News
“More than 30 families have taken legal action against a hospital in north-west
England for a catalogue of baby and maternal deaths and injuries.”
BBC News, 15th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mother fights to reopen case of brain-damaged baby – The Guardian
“NHS blunders left her newborn baby seriously brain damaged, and two and a half years later Andrea Duggan is still angry that no member of staff has been brought to book.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Doctor criticised after baby dies while in care of privatised GP service – The Guardian
“Coroner says doctor made ‘wholly inadequate entries on the records that were clearly at odds with the evidence.’ ”
The Guardian, 28th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Prospective adoptive child will not be taken from blind woman, for now – UK Human Rights Blog
“This case, described by Cobb J as an ‘unusual and troubling’ case, concerns a 1 year old girl ‘SB’ and a woman ‘RCW’. SB was born prematurely, at 27 weeks, weighing just 1 kg; almost immediately she was abandoned by her natural mother.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Probe into ‘high death rate’ hospitals extended – BBC News
“Another nine hospital trusts are to be investigated for high death rates in the
wake of the damning report on the NHS over its handling of the Stafford Hospital
scandal.”
BBC News, 11th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Appeal court orders release of severely disabled prisoner – The Guardian
“The appeal court has shown ‘exceptional mercy’ to a severely disabled prisoner, releasing him from prison early after his lawyers argued the prison service could not meet his complex medical needs.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
High Court legal bid to save Leeds child heart surgery – BBC News
“The High Court is due to hear a legal challenge over plans to end child heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary.”
BBC News, 11th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mid Staffs Inquiry report: Human rights abuses need human rights solutions – UK Human Rights Blog
“Hundreds of people have died; others have been starved, dehydrated and left in appalling conditions of indignity, witnessed by their loved ones. Surely this is what Chris Grayling, Justice Secretary, had in mind when he recently cautioned to need to ‘concentrate on real human rights’?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Robert Francis QC: hundreds were subjected to ‘appalling and unnecessary suffering’ – video – The Guardian
“Robert Francis QC speaks to the media following the release of his report into the Mid Staffordshire NHS trust scandal, in which between 400 to 1,200 people died as a result of inadequate care. Francis makes 290 recommendations in the report. He says that many were failed by a system that put ‘corporate self-interest’ ahead of patients and their safety.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Mid Staffs report: NHS culture was the culprit – The Guardian
“The scale of Robert Francis’s report cannot be overestimated – and neither can the magnitude of cultural change it calls for.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Final report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry
NHS staff must reveal poor care by law, says inquiry – Daily Telegraph
“NHS hospitals should face prosecution if doctors and nurses fail to blow the whistle on patients receiving poor care, an official inquiry into the scandal at Stafford Hospital will recommend on Wednesday.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Woman left fighting for life after gastric bypass surgery went wrong is awarded £35,000 compensation – The Independent
“A woman who was left fighting for her life after gastric bypass surgery went wrong has been awarded £35,000.”
The Independent, 4th February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Mother Hazel Spence left paralysed by hospital error – BBC News
“A mother of two has been given a multimillion-pound payout by a Birmingham hospital, after mistakes during an operation left her paralysed.”
BBC News, 29th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Child radiotherapy case: “one cannot enjoy even diminished quality of life if one is not alive” – UK Human Rights Blog
“The highly publicised case about a seven year old boy whose estranged parents could not agree about the necessary treatment following surgery for his brain tumour was resolved by a firm ruling in favour of orthodox medicine by Bodey J, four days before Christmas.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
