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…
NHS Resolution relaunches Maternity Incentive Scheme Year 3 By Sean Doherty NHS Resolution launched its “Maternity Incentive Scheme” in 2018 to support the Department of Health’s Maternity Safety Strategy and to generally seek to improve the delivery of safer maternity and neonatal care. It seeks to do this by financially…
No compensation for loss arising from a claimant’s criminal activity: the final chapter By Mark Ashley This morning (30 October 2020) the Supreme Court has handed down its judgment in Ecila Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust . The Claimant’s appeal against the dismissal of her claim was rejected by all seven of the Justices…
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?
Gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare: What’s the latest? By Tracey Longfield We look at the ‘Independent Review of Gross Negligence Manslaughter and Culpable Homicide’ report’s key findings and some of the changes it envisages in the ongoing quest for a true ‘learning not blaming’ culture.
