“A judge has criticised a council for trying to have contraception forced upon a woman with a low IQ, warning that the move had ‘shades of social engineering’.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th August 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An NHS inquiry is to be held into how a former care home manager in Somerset was able to siphon off prescription drugs from the elderly people she nursed, the BBC can reveal.”
BBC News, 23rd July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An investigation into the Dr Daniel Ubani case, where the German locum doctor killed pensioner David Gray by giving him ten times the normal dose of painkillers, has uncovered wider failings by foreign doctors. The Care Quality Commission, which regulates health and social care, found that on at least two other occasions German doctors flying in to work for the same out of hours company as Dr Ubani administered overdoses of the same painkiller, diamorphine.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina v Lee [2010] EWCA Crim 1404; [2010] WLR (D) 160
“The offence under s 85(5)(b) of the Medicines Act 1968 of selling or supplying a medicinal product which was misleadingly labelled or marked in respect of the nature or quality of the product, where such sale or supply was done by a person ‘in the course of a business carried on by him’, could not be committed by a person who was merely employed or engaged by the business which carried out the sale or supply, but was committed by the employer, namely the person or body carrying on the business.”
WLR Daily, 25th June 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The Crown Prosecution Service has today published Legal Guidance to Crown Prosecutors on the prosecution of offences in the Medicines Act 1968, including where there has been a dispensing error by a pharmacist. This Legal Guidance has been agreed in consultation with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Department of Health (DH).”
Crown Prosecution Service, 21st June 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A hospital trust has been ordered to pay £100,000 after a new mother ‘needlessly’ died when an epidural anaesthetic was mistakenly fed into her veins.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A struck-off doctor was jailed for selling slimming pills to patients across the country, police said. Sudesh Madan, 57, of Homeway, Romford, Essex, was given an 18-month prison sentence at St Albans Crown Court yesterday after previously admitting four counts of possession with intent to supply a controlled drug and four counts of supplying a controlled drug. She also asked for eight other offences to be taken into consideration. ”
The Independent, 12th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A doctor has been banned from prescribing drugs and told to take down part of her website after appearing before the General Medical Council.”
BBC News, 29th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for a minimum of 10 years for trying to kill his weeks-old baby son by smothering him and poisoning him with painkillers.”
BBC News, 16th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government has announced plans to force all providers of unlicensed herbal medicines to register with a regulator.”
BBC News, 1st April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), the new industry regulator, has clarified guidelines in the revised code, which states that staff can opt out of handing out the pill or the morning after pill.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The maker of Gaviscon indigestion medicine is alleged to have removed one version of the drug from NHS lists to encourage doctors to prescribe a more expensive variety. The Office of Fair Trading said yesterday that Reckitt Benckiser had abused its bestselling position in the market for supplying heartburn medicines to the NHS.”
The Times, 24th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An advertisement for tablets that guaranteed ‘the sex life of your dreams’ has been banned after a man complained that it didn’t work and demanded his money back.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
R v Hussain (Shabbir) [2010] WLR (D) 22
“A possessor of drugs did not commit an offence contrary to ss 4(1) and 5(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 if he intended to supply the drugs outside the jurisdiction.”
WLR Daily, 3rd February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Rights for NHS patients to be treated with dignity and respect are now enshrined in law for the first time, ministers have announced.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The GMC’s case against Andrew Wakefield has cost over £1m – so far. Jeremy Laurance, health editor, reports.”
The Independent, 16th January 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government will apologise later to the victims of the thalidomide scandal after agreeing a £20m support package.”
BBC News, 14th January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government is set to pay millions of pounds to thalidomide victims and to apologise for their suffering.”
TheTimes, 21st December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Art 6 of Council Directive 89/105/EEC relating to the transparency of measures regulating the pricing of medicinal products for human use and their inclusion in the scope of national health insurance systems (OJ L40) (‘the Transparency Directive’) was engaged where the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (‘NICE’) published guidance making a recommendation in respect of a health care intervention for treatment of patients after making a single technology appraisal pursuant to para 2(1)(a) of the Directions and Consolidating Directions to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence 2005, issued by the Secretary of State pursuant to s 7 of the National Health Service Act 2006. Where the negative criteria for a single technology appraisal leading to the publication of guidance were the antithesis of the positive criteria it was incumbent upon the United Kingdom to communicate those criteria to the Commission of the European Communities pursuant to art 6 of the Transparency Directive. NICE was under a duty to act fairly in carrying out single technology appraisals.”
WLR Daily, 9th November 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Britain’s most revered newspaper editor returned to the scene of his greatest triumph yesterday, joining thalidomide survivors to demand that the Government acknowledge its role in the world’s worst drug disaster.”
The Independent, 9th October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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