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
    ... ... Here sincere professionals could not allay a collective medical conscience and see children in their ... ) Mr Adrian Whitfield QC (appearing with Mr Huw Lloyd for the Healthcare Trust) conceded that Jodie and Mary must be regarded as two separate ... ...
  • 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 ... ...
  • Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence v Nursing and Midwifery Council and Another
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 14 April 2011
    ... ... include both unduly lenient findings of fact and unduly lenient sanctions; see in particular Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals v. General Medical Council and Basiouny [2005] EWHC 68 (Admin) ... It appears that there is, as yet, no decided case concerning an unduly lenient ... ...
  • 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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