“Women who claim they had botched and unnecessary breast cancer operations are taking legal action against three hospitals in the West Midlands.”
BBC News, 7th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Giving all doctors annual assessments and detailed checks every five years will result in better care for patients and reduce compensation claims, but may see an exodus of experienced medics from the NHS who are reluctant to be tested, a government study has warned.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says urgent retrospective legislation is needed to correct a ‘technical error’ affecting up to 5,000 patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act since 2002.”
BBC News, 29th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“One in ten medical negligence claims involving cancer are from women with breast cancer as doctors are failing to examine women and not following up on abnormal test results, it has been warned.
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer-related medical negligence claim against GPs, Medical Protection Society (MPS) has found.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2012
Soruce: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Patient care is being put at risk by the European Working Time Directive, which ‘disrupts continuity of care and distorts clinical training’, say two Royal Colleges.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Telegraph and the Daily Mail are using convicted doctors as ammunition in their latest assault on the Human Rights Act. ‘Dozens of convicted sex offenders are working as doctors, it has emerged’, fulminates The Telegraph. ‘At least 31 men are practising as GPs, consultants and surgeons despite having convictions for assaulting women, possessing child pornography or soliciting prostitutes’. And it’s all the fault of the bête noire – human rights. ‘The General Medical Council (GMC) said it was unable to ban medics for being on the sex offenders’ register as it has been advised that such a move would not be compatible with human rights legislation’.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 1st October 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“The GMC said it could not impose an automatic ban on doctors convicted of sex offences as this would risk breaching human rights legislation.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Complaints about doctors have reached a record high, the General Medical Council said.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Doctors should talk to children as young as five alone if they suspect they are at risk of neglect or abuse, under new guidance.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lord Justice Toulson, sitting with Mrs Justice Royce and Mrs Justice Macur, has handed down judgment in the case of Tony Nicklinson and that of another ‘locked-in’ syndrome sufferer, ‘Martin’. On all the issues, they have deferred to parliament to take the necessary steps to address the problems created by the current law of murder and assisted suicide.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Two victims of locked-in syndrome, including Tony Nicklinson who has sought to be able to end his ‘dull, miserable, demeaning, undignified and intolerable’ life, have lost their high court battle to die with medical help.”
The Guardian, 16th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A doctor who removed the wrong fallopian tube from a patient, leaving her unable to conceive naturally, has been criticised by a tribunal for her ‘hasty, careless, and dismissive’ attitude.”
The Guardian, 15th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Doctors are facing unprecedented increases in claims for compensation for clinical negligence, according to the head of the Medical Defence Union.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th August 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The head of the government’s drugs rationing body has claimed that a number of NHS trusts are ‘breaking the law’ by denying patients access to approved treatments and drugs to save money.”
The Guardian, 3rd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Westwood v Hospital Medical Group Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1005; [2012] WLR (D) 222
“A person not working for a company pursuant to a contract of employment, who was clearly an integral part of its undertaking when providing services as a surgeon, even though he was in business on his own account was a worker for the purposes of section 230(3)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.”
WLR Daily, 24th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Family doctors will be reassessed to ensure they remain competent every five years from December, the medical watchdog said yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Doctors in 13 NHS trusts in England have been found to be breaking abortion law by pre-signing forms certifying that women could have their pregnancies terminated.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Doctors will be banned from prescribing anti-ageing drugs like Botox on the phone or internet if they have not seen their patients face to face, the BBC has learned.”
BBC News, 9th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Coroner says 77-year-old Eva Hudson might be alive today had Dr Neeraj Tekkar correctly diagnosed her condition.”
The Guardian, 28th June 2012
Soruce: www.guardian.co.uk
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