doctors – Page 28 – Current Awareness

How has the NHS been changed by the Health and Social Care Act 2012? – No. 5 Chambers

Posted July 3rd, 2013 in budgets, competition, doctors, health, hospitals, lectures, medical treatment by sally

“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

Posted June 27th, 2013 in blood products, coroners, doctors, human tissue, news by sally

“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

Posted June 26th, 2013 in disclosure, doctors, judicial review, news, sexual orientation discrimination by sally

“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 His appointment was revoked less than a month after he had accepted an offer to join the ACMD, as a result of certain views about homosexuality expressed in a paper he had co-written in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

Posted June 21st, 2013 in doctors, health, hospital orders, news by tracey

“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

Posted June 12th, 2013 in appeals, disciplinary procedures, doctors, news, penalties, professional conduct by sally

“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

Posted June 11th, 2013 in doctors, hospitals, inquests, negligence, news by tracey

“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

Posted May 23rd, 2013 in doctors, news, sentencing, sexual offences, video recordings by sally

“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

Posted May 21st, 2013 in disabled persons, doctors, health, hospitals, news, ombudsmen, reports by sally

“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

Posted May 13th, 2013 in abuse of position of trust, doctors, harassment, medical ethics, medical records, news, privacy, professional conduct by tracey

“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

Peers clash over right-to-die ‘spin’ – Daily Telegraph

Posted May 13th, 2013 in appeals, assisted suicide, barristers, bills, doctors, euthanasia, murder, news by tracey

“Lord Carlile of Berriew QC said that plans due to be put before Parliament by
Lord Falconer on Wednesday to allow doctors to help terminally ill people to die
would not ‘pass the public safety test’. Lord Carlile makes his warning, in an
article in today’s Sunday Telegraph, as the biggest combined assault on
Britain’s ban on euthanasia for a generation is about to be instigated.”

Daily Telegraph, 11th May 2013

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Polish doctor struck off after patient death – Daily Telegraph

Posted May 3rd, 2013 in disciplinary procedures, disqualification, doctors, news by tracey

“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

Verma v Barts and The London NHS Trust (NHS Employers intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted April 30th, 2013 in contract of employment, doctors, hospitals, law reports, part-time work, remuneration by sally

Verma v Barts and The London NHS Trust (NHS Employers intervening) [2013] UKSC 20; [2013] WLR (D) 152

“Where a part-time locum doctor, as a step towards achieving a consultant’s post, took a one-year full time training post at a lower rate of pay but under the relevant NHS terms and conditions was entitled to pay protection, that entitlement was not limited to preserving her previous annual earnings but required her employer to pay all her new full-time hours at an hourly-rate equivalent to her previous part-time work.”

WLR Daily, 24th April 2013

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Barts and the London NHS Trust (Respondent) v Verma (Appellant) – Supreme Court

Posted April 25th, 2013 in contract of employment, doctors, hospitals, law reports, part-time work, remuneration, Supreme Court by sally

Barts and the London NHS Trust (Respondent) v Verma (Appellant) [2013] UKSC 20 | UKSC 2011/0246 (YouTube)

Supreme Court, 24th April 2013

Source: www.youtube.com/user/UKSupremeCourt

Cutting to the chase – New Law Journal

Posted April 22nd, 2013 in case management, costs, damages, doctors, expert witnesses, news, personal injuries by sally

“The Jackson and associated reforms in civil court procedure are largely now in place. Extended ‘tracks’ and ‘portals’, reduced fixed fees, costs budgeting and non-recoverability of success fees will force lawyers to take a close look at the costs incurred in presenting an injury claim and how most efficiently to put the claim together. The medical report is essential, providing the foundations of much of the claim.”

New Law Journal, 19th April 2013

Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk

Doctor entitled to rely on GMC’s assurance that his Caribbean qualification would be acceptable in UK – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted April 18th, 2013 in appeals, doctors, education, judicial review, news, universities by sally

“The registration criteria for doctors trained abroad have been changed to respond to abuse by medical schools claiming false affiliations with the institutions listed in the WHO Directory. Although the 2006 rules effecting this change were lawful, the appellant had a legitimate expectation that he could rely on individual and specific assurances that he would be allowed to register on completion of his training.”

UK Human Rights Blog, 18th April 2013

Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com

Doctors inform ICO of concerns over new medical data sharing scheme – OUT-LAW.com

Posted April 4th, 2013 in anonymity, data protection, doctors, health, medical records, news by sally

“The UK’s data protection watchdog has highlighted concerns it has with a new information-sharing initiative that has begun operating in the health sector in England.”

OUT-LAW.com, 3rd April 2013

Source: www.out-law.com

Regina (Patel) v General Medical Council – WLR Daily

Posted April 3rd, 2013 in appeals, doctors, education, judicial review, law reports, universities by sally

Regina (Patel) v General Medical Council [2013] EWCA Civ 1938; [2013] WLR (D) 128

“A professional medical body with responsibility for registering doctors was not entitled to defeat the legitimate expectation of registration of a British resident who had undertaken a long course of study by distance learning at an overseas university, relying on e-mail assurances from the defendant body that he would be entitled to register his medical qualification once awarded on completion of all the clinical requirements. The decision to refuse him registration because the criteria for accepting overseas qualifications had since changed could not stand.”

WLR Daily, 27th March 2013

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Doctors allowed to date former patients – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 27th, 2013 in doctors, medical ethics, news, professional conduct by tracey

“A watchdog has updated its guidance on doctors having romantic relationships
with their former patients, urging medical professionals to use their
‘professional judgement’ to decide if it is appropriate.”

Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2013

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Doctors put lower value on lives of the disabled, study finds – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 20th, 2013 in disabled persons, doctors, learning difficulties, medical treatment, news, reports by tracey

“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

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