Kent sex assault GP Barend Delport jailed for six years – BBC News
“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
Category: doctors
General Medical Council to test EU doctors’ proficiency in English – The Guardian
“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
Gender abortions: CPS accused of double standards after putting pro-life campaigners on trial – Daily Telegraph
“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
Ombudsman criticises GP out-of-hours failings in Carmarthen after death – BBC News
“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
Restrictions on health workers with HIV lifted as ‘outdated’ ban ends – The Guardian
“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workers who have HIV are to be allowed to perform all kinds of procedures on patients, following the lifting of an outdated ban that led in some cases to the loss of careers and livelihoods.”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 surgeries must inform patients about data plan – or face legal action – The Independent
“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
Berwick report: Danger of understaffed NHS wards can no longer be ignored after Mid Staffs scandal, Jeremy Hunt warned – The Independent
“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)
Nottinghamshire police disciplined over pregnant woman’s treatment – BBC News
“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
How has the NHS been changed by the Health and Social Care Act 2012? – No. 5 Chambers
“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
The good Samaritan doctor and the Human Tissue Act – UK Human Rights Blog
“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
Sacking GP from government drugs advisor post for ‘anti-gay’ views was lawful – UK Human Rights Blog
“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
New guidance on DNR orders brought forward – The Guardian
“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
Can an employer increase the sanction for misconduct on appeal? – UK Human Rights Blog
“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
Pregnant mother died on operating table after trainees removed ovary by mistake – Daily Telegraph
“A heavily pregnant mother died on the operating table after two unsupervised trainee surgeons removed one of her ovaries instead of her appendix by mistake.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
GP Davinder Jeet Bains jailed for filming abuse of patients – BBC News
“A family doctor who used a secret camera inside his wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients at his surgery has been jailed for 12 years.”
BBC News, 23rd May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Disabled woman died after NHS blunders, ombudsman finds – The Guardian
“A catalogue of mistakes by an out-of-hours GP service and a hospital contributed to the death of a young woman with physical and learning disabilities, the NHS ombudsman says on Tuesday in a highly critical report that has led to fresh claims of prejudicial attitudes leading to poor care for such vulnerable patients.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Aberystwyth doctor six-month ban for ‘flirting’ texts – BBC News
“A doctor who worked at Aberystwyth’s Bronglais hospital has been struck off for six months after sending flirtatious texts messages.”
BBC News, 10th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Polish doctor struck off after patient death – Daily Telegraph
“A Polish doctor has been struck off after scoring less than 20 per cent in a
performance test.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
