ABC v St George's Healthcare NHS Trust and others [2020] EWHC 455 (QB) In this recent English case, the High Court recognised that the second defendant, a trust which ran a hospital, owed a duty of care to the daughter of its patient. The duty recognised was a duty to “balance her interest in being informed of her genetic risk against her father’s interest in preserving confidentiality in relation to his diagnosis and the public interest in maintaining medical confidentiality generally”. The...
Duty to a patient’s child at the intersection of genetic risk and preservation of confidentiality: ABC v ST GEORGE’S HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST AND OTHERS [2020] EWHC 455 (QB)
27 Mar , 2020