The coronavirus outbreak has led to a significant increase in demand for healthcare services. It is perhaps inevitable that this outbreak will unfortunately expose staff to the virus, and this may therefore lead to fewer staff being available to provide healthcare…
What is the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman and what does it do? The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman is an independent body responsible for investigating complaints about councils, adult social care providers (including care homes and home care…
This question was considered in the case of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust v Gregg. The facts Dr Gregg commenced employment with North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust in 2003. The Trust became aware of a number of serious concerns regarding…
Key considerations when making a decision regarding whether to disclose patient records to the police: Has a Court Order been obtained by the police or is there a witness summons compelling an individual to produce the relevant records to the Court? The…
‘It is, in my judgment, necessary and appropriate that I should make the court’s disapproval of the way in which the NMC responded to the previous court order. For these reasons the costs order, modest as it is, is in…
The final report of the GP partnership review, led by Dr Nigel Watson, was published on 15 January 2019.[1] The report follows Secretary for Health and Social Care, Mr Matt Hancock, announcement in February 2018 that a review should take…
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 contains requirements to secure a conviction: The defendant was a qualifying organisation The organisation owed a relevant duty of care to the deceased The duty of care was grossly breached A substantial component of the breach…
Recent media coverage of the treatment meted out to politicians and journalists under the guise of political protest has highlighted the use of mobile phones to record video footage, and the posting of such footage to the internet. In that context,…
In a significant new decision on clinical negligence liability, although finding a breach of duty, the Court of Appeal held that a mother could not recover the costs associated with her child’s disability, where the advice which she had sought…
Somewhat unusually, the focus of this piece is a post script in the judgment of the Court of Sessions addressing concerns about unfairness in the mechanism for appealing fitness to practise sanctions. The sanction A nurse whose fitness to practise had been…
