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Key takeaways from the Home Secretary’s Statement on Asylum Reforms: 30-months permission to stay for new claims and transitional arrangements for pending cases
Oliver Oldman
11 December 2017
The PAC report has a point
The report by The Public Accounts Committee looking at financial pressures on the NHS rightfully criticises the government for being too slow to get to grips with the burgeoning cost of negligence. It found that the annual cost of clinical negligence for NHS trusts has quadrupled over the last decade (from £400 million in 2006/07 to £1.6 billion in 2016/17) diverting precious resources away from patients and frontline services. It also warned that the NHS’s defensive culture when things goes wrong needs to change.
6 December 2017
Failure to advise a potential carrier of a hereditary condition: what can be claimed when a disabled child is born as a result?
The recent High Court case of Meadows v Khan has considered under what circumstances a claim can be brought for the failure to identify that someone is potentially a carrier of a hereditary condition and that person goes on to have a child who suffers from the hereditary condition and other disabilities.
28 November 2017
Coroners to investigate still born deaths
Today, the Health Secretary announced “a new maternity strategy to reduce the number of stillbirths. This strategy centres on the investigation of still birth deaths by the new Healthcare Safety Investigations Branch but it also included a planned change in the law to allow coroners to investigate full term still birth deaths. Currently there is no requirement for a doctor to refer a still birth death to the local coroner.
24 November 2017
A short guide to the accommodation conundrum
For those hoping for confirmation of what approach the judiciary is going to take now that JR is settled, sadly, this blog cannot provide that. However, this blog does take stock of the current situation, looks at how we got here and tries to offer some insight into where we might be going.
8 November 2017
Professor Keogh Speaks Out – NHS Patient Safety
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph on 29 October 2017 Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS National Medical Director, said that patients were being left in danger because of the absence of any central NHS system ordering changes in practice on safety grounds. Patients are being left at risk of suffering needless harm, including amputations, devastating maternity complications and in some circumstances, death. All this because a lack of action to protect patients from known risks.