“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)
Adesina v Nursing and Midwifery Council; Baines v Same: [2013] EWCA Civ 818; [2013] WLR (D) 273
“The time limit of 28 days to lodge an appeal from a decision of the Nursing and Midwifery Council to strike off or discipline a nurse was subject to a discretion which would only arise in exceptional circumstances and where the appellant personally had done all she could to bring the appeal in time.”
WLR Daily, 9th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The highest-ranking nurse in the Royal Air Force has won damages after bringing a sexual discrimination case against the Ministry of Defence.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A nurse who spent six weeks in prison accused of poisoning patients at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital is to sue Greater Manchester Police (GMP).”
BBC News, 3rd June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Fresh medical and scientific evidence is being published this week that campaigners hope will lead to the release of Colin Norris, the former nurse and so-called ‘Angel of Death’ serving life for the murder or attempted murder of five elderly women.”
The Guardian, 20th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v Cosford and others [2013] EWCA Crim 466; [2013] WLR (D) 147
“The test for identifying a public office turned on the nature of the duty undertaken and, in particular, whether it was a public duty in the sense that it represented the fulfilment of one of the responsibilities of government such that the public had a significant interest in its discharge extending beyond an interest in anyone who might be directly affected by a serious failure in the performance of the duty. The existence or otherwise of a public office was a question of law to be decided by a trial judge not by a jury.”
WLR Daily, 16th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A nurse who helped treat twins who died from a huge overdose of morphine at the scandal-hit Stafford hospital has been allowed to keep working.”
The Guardian, 15th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This was an application for judicial review, and a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998, in respect of the defendant’s decision to disclose allegations of neglect and ill-treatment of care home residents in an Enhanced Criminal Records Certificate dated 12th October 2012.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“NHS blunders left her newborn baby seriously brain damaged, and two and a half years later Andrea Duggan is still angry that no member of staff has been brought to book.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Perry v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2013] EWCA Civ 145; [2013] WLR (D) 88
“Fairness did not require that a respondent to an allegation of unfitness to practise his profession had to be given an opportunity to give evidence as to the substance of that allegation before a tribunal considering whether to make an interim suspension order or other interim order under a legislative scheme, such as that contained in the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, since that was not what the statutory scheme envisaged or what fairness required at the interim stage. Guidance was given as to the procedure to be followed by a committee, considering whether to make an interim order pending the substantive hearing of a complaint against a member of the profession, in order to satisfy the fairness requirement.”
WLR Daily, 28th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A nurse who caused the death of a baby in a botched home circumcision has been spared jail.”
BBC News, 8th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A senior mental health nurse who performed Nazi salutes in front of patients has been struck off.”
BBC News, 19th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family of a young woman is suing the country’s biggest out-of-hours GP provider and one of its nurses, whose failures meant her fatal condition was not diagnosed, because neither will accept liability in a test case over legal responsibility in a privatised NHS.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A nurse has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a four-week-old baby who bled to death after a botched home circumcision.”
The Independent, 14th December 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Close on the heels of last week’s decision regarding disclosure of information from the Child Sex Offenders Register comes this ruling on the police decision to disclose certain information from a nurse’s enhanced criminal records certificates without affording her an opportunity to make representations before the information was released.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A health worker who invented a glittering but bogus medical career to secure work as a nurse in the NHS has been jailed for 15 months.”
The Guardian, 26th September 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
“Failings ‘at every level’ of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) mean it is letting down patients in its prime duty to protect them, says a report.”
BBC News, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The body that regulates nurses and midwives in the UK is failing to carry out its duties due to institutional weakness, an interim review says.”
BBC News, 10th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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