Clinical negligence By Nigel Montgomery For all the latest news and comment in clinical negligence healthcare law
Clinical regulatory By Corinne Slingo For all the latest news and comment in clinical regulatory healthcare law
Health Adviser By Nigel Montgomery This collection looks at the latest strategic, commercial, regulatory and negligence legal and advisory news and comment in health and social care. Health Adviser is an industry publication, produced by DAC Beachcroft, providing insight, foresight…
Health and social care integration By Hamza Drabu For all the latest legal and regulatory news and comment in health and social care integration
Health corporate regulatory For all the latest news and comment in corporate regulatory healthcare law
Junior Doctors By Rachel Roberts-Jenkins Having worked for the NHS since its inception in 1948, and as an original panel firm for NHS Resolution, DAC Beachcroft has developed a training video and toolkit for junior doctors, which can be freely accessed here by trusts and health and social…
Recoverability of inquest costs – what constitutes an ‘admission’? By Jonathan Bonser In this article we look at the recent case of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service v. Veevers [2020] EWHC 2550 (Comm) which is the latest case to deal with the issue of recoverability of inquest costs and will be of particular interest to…
World Patient Safety Day – Safe Health Workers, Safe Patients By Heather Durston-Hillyer The second ever World Patient Safety Day takes place today, 17 September 2020, with a focus on making health worker safety a priority for patient safety.
Three years: DAC Beachcroft successfully defends clinical negligence claim on grounds of limitation By Mark Ashley Defending a claim upon limitation grounds is known to be fraught with difficulty. However, in the right circumstances the Limitation Act 1980 can still protect defendants against claims brought out of time. Here, DAC Beachcroft looks at limitation…
Swift v Carpenter The long-awaited and twice adjourned appeal of Swift v Carpenter started in the Court of Appeal on 23 June 2020.
Clinical negligence claims not based on expert evidence will be struck out The recent appeal decision in Magee v Willmott [2020] EWHC 1378 (QB) serves as a useful reminder for solicitors acting on behalf of claimants in clinical negligence claims that they “must take care to ensure that the pleadings properly reflect the…
Secondary Victim Claims - Paul & Others v The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust The decision in the Paul appeal was handed down last week. Mr Justice Chamberlain found that Master Cook was wrong to strike out the Claimants’ claims in November 2019 and allowed their appeal against strike out on the basis that they were…
The costs of commercial surrogacy: setting a principle or creating an exception? By Sara May Can a claimant recover damages sought in relation to a surrogacy service which, while being legal in the country in which it was intended that the service would be performed, would have been illegal in the United Kingdom?
Mustard v Flower: Is it Fair Game for a Claimant to Covertly Record Examinations by Medical Experts? By Mark Ashley The question of what was said by a Claimant during an appointment with a medical expert can often become a key issue in clinical negligence and complex injury claims. The decision by Master Davison in Mustard v Flower, which has just been…
Patient Safety is everyone’s responsibility: The New Patient Safety Strategy By Sean Doherty On 1 April 2019, NHS Improvement and NHS England united as one. The NHS Patient Strategy was published shortly after, in July 2019, and marks a positive sea change in the evolving framework of patient safety. Continued improvements in patient…
Calling all hip and knee surgeons - New Professional Guidance for arthroplasty documentation to evidence safe clinical practice By Sean Doherty The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme is designed to improve healthcare practice, techniques and processes for the benefit of patients and to reduce litigation costs. As part of ongoing work with NHS Resolution, new guidance has…
