Healthcare Professionals in UK Law

  • St. George's Healthcare N.H.S. Trust v S
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 July 1998
    ... ... References to "she" and "her" should be read accordingly. It also extends, where relevant, to medical practitioners and health professionals generally as well as to hospital authorities ... 6The Guidelines depend on basic legal principles which we summarise: (i) They have no ... ...
  • R (M) v Ashworth Hospital Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 13 October 2005
    ... ... by a Code which will guide but not bind local managers and healthcare professionals, leaving the final decision to them, there is nothing in the ... ...
  • Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 11 March 2015
    ... ... had been put by Lord Woolf MR in Pearce v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust [1999] PIQR P 53 , para 21: was there a significant risk ... In addition, a wider range of healthcare professionals now provide treatment and advice of one kind or another to members of the ... ...
  • R (Wilkinson) v Broadmoor Hospital
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 October 2001
    ... ... Lord Steyn recognised "that health care professionals will almost always act in the best interests of patients", but observed ... ...
  • Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 September 2000
  • R (Burke) v General Medical Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 July 2005
    ... ... there is a lack of unanimity amongst the attending medical professionals as to either (1) the patient's condition or prognosis or (2) the patient's ... ...
  • Re S (Sterilisation: Patient's Best Interests)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 May 2000
    ... ... it is the function of the judge to protect the medical professionals from the threat of criminal or civil proceedings as a consequence of the ... ...
  • An application by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)
    • Supreme Court
    • 07 June 2018
    ... ... The Departmental Guidance for Health and Social Care Professionals on Termination of Pregnancy in Northern Ireland (March 2016) draws ... provisions as well as a positive duty to provide appropriate healthcare treatment where the denial of that treatment would expose victims to ... ...
  • Manchester City Council v (1) G (2) E (by The Official Solicitor) (3) F
    • Family Division
    • 26 March 2010
    ... ... But overall, it is important to note that the view of the professionals involved with E has been that he has been well cared for by F. For ... relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal in St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S [1998] 3 WLR 936 , which concerned an admission to ... ...
  • R (Andrew Warren) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 14 March 2003
    ... ... needed social services if extradited (and to consult current healthcare professionals to that end), and to set up a mechanism for Mr Warren to ... ...
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