Top stories in this newsletter: New Case Briefing: Supreme Court finds that receptionists at A&E departments owe a tortious duty of care to patients not to provide inaccurate/ misleading information regarding waiting times...
26 Oct , 2018
Top stories in this newsletter: Hong Kong court decision – a baby’s negligence claim against the Hospital Authority for fail-ing to inform her mother at the time of the pregnancy of a chromosomal defect of the baby and the risk of the baby suffering associated disabilities was barred and not permitted.
28 Sep , 2018
Top stories in this newsletter: Antibiotic-resistant superbugs found on train handrails of the Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong – In further news about antimicrobial resistance in Hong Kong, a team of researchers from the University of Hong Kong found the train handrails of the Mass Transit Railway (“MTR”) in Hong Kong dispersing superbugs with antibiotic-resistant genes. The results of the study suggest that there could be transmis-sion of superbugs across the border between Hong Kong and...
31 Aug , 2018
An NHS Trust and others v Y (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) and another [2018] UKSC 46 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that neither the domestic law nor the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”) made it mandatory, in every case, to apply to the court for approval before clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (“CANH”) could be withdrawn from a patient with a prolonged disorder of consciousness (“PDOC”). However, it emphasized that there would be...
30 Jul , 2018
Top stories in this newsletter: Travel alert for Pakistan issued by the US due to ongoing outbreak of typhoid superbug – In further news about antimicrobial resistance, the United States has issued a travel alert for Pakistan in light of the ongoing outbreak of an extremely drug-resistant new strain of typhoid fever which is resistant to five different antibiotics. The strain was first identified in November 2016, and since then, it has spread throughout the country, with 800 people infected...
27 Jul , 2018
Top stories in this newsletter: New measures to be introduced in the UK to protect doctors – Following the case of Dr. Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register after being found guilty of mistakes in the death of a 6 year old boy, UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that there will be new measures introduced to protect doctors and nurses when mistakes are made. An important new measure is that the UK General Medical Council will no longer be able to appeal the results of...
29 Jun , 2018
