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Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline – May 2026
Jack Garden
21 December 2017
Mistake in every 5 births
The publicity surrounding the alarming statistic that in one in every 5 births there are lapses that lead to mistakes is scary. Jeremy Hunt’s desire to make it his “top priority” to tackle these incidents is a step in the right direction because any mistake in maternity care can have devastating consequences.
13 December 2017
CPotential’s Inaugural Gala Dinner: another great event
CPotential’s inaugural fundraising gala dinner took place at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London. My colleague and I went along as guests of their CEO, the indefatigable Jo Honigman.
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.