8 August Case Updates Shally v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust [2023] EWHC 1304 (KB) Negligence, Clinical negligence, Neurosurgery, Costotransversectomy, 10. Report Writing “A negligent failure to perform a costotransversectomy?” The detail of this judgment will be of interest to neurosurgeons and spinal surgeons. However, particularly as the judgment quotes C v North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust [2014] Med. L.R. 189 which gives meaning to the adjectives ‘responsible’, ‘competent’ and ‘respectable’ in Bolitho, this is a useful judgment to have to hand when preparing a report in a case of alleged clinical negligence.
11 January Case Updates Morrison v Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 91 (QB), 2020 WL 00410775 Clinical negligence, 10. Report Writing Topic: Analysis of evidence The case: An obstetric negligence case in which there was an issue as to possible competing priorities on the ward on the night in question.
27 July Case Updates SC v University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Clinical negligence, 10. Report Writing Relevance: General Topics: Glossary Nature of case: Clinical negligence
27 July Case Updates Darrell Stewart Jones v Ministry of Defence [2020] EWHC 1603 (QB), 2020 WL 03415114 Causation, Clinical negligence, Life expectancy, HIV, Delayed diagnosis, 10. Report Writing, 06. Receiving Instructions, 14. Giving Oral Evidence, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: General Clinical negligence Topics: Life expectancy Delayed diagnosis HIV Causation