The first healthcare regulators report on whistleblowing was published on 11 September 2018, collating over 12 months of information from each of the 8 healthcare regulators.[1] What is the report and why was it commissioned? The report, designed to provide information in…
The right of patients to access their personal data is not new. The GDPR made some potentially significant changes to that right including abolishing fees (in most cases) and shortening the timescale for data controllers to respond to subject access…
In late 2017, newly qualified Dr S had been out with a group of friends at the races to celebrate a friend’s birthday and his own graduation. This led to the group going to a nightclub and to Dr S…
In a decision handed down in the Court of Session in Scotland last week, Lady Wolffe held that the Investigating Committee (IC) of the GDC had incorrectly taken advantage of the General Dental Council (Fitness to Practice) (Amendment) Rules Order…
The General Medical Council (GMC) has announced that all of their fitness to practice decision makers, clinical experts and case examiners will receive Human Factors training. Human Factors Human Factors is a social science that focuses on maximising understanding of the behaviour…
On Wednesday 10 October 2018, the Supreme Court unanimously allowed an appeal brought by a patient claiming damages based on false information provided to him by a hospital receptionist. In Darnley v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2018] UKSC 50 the Court held…
The Upper Tribunal recently considered the issue of what a patient needs to understand in order to establish they have capacity to bring proceedings before the First-Tier Tribunal.[1] Background to the case Mr S, the patient in this case, did not have…
Legal professional privilege is a doctrine of fundamental importance to both lawyers and their clients, allowing certain documents and communications to be withheld from production to third parties and to the court. And for a simple reason; clients need to be…
This was considered by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of Saad v Southampton University NHS Trust[1] If made dishonestly, a claim for victimisation can be struck out for being made in ‘bad faith’. Facts of the case Mr Saad, the claimant,…
The Court of Appeal unanimously allowed the appeal of by Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba against the decision of the Divisional Court to erase her. Following the decision of the High Court in January 2018 to substitute the original Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal (MPT)…
