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17 July 2023
On 29 June 2023 the UK Government announced that work had commenced on the creation of a Code of Practice on copyright and AI. This follows the publication of the Vallance Report, prepared by Sir Patrick Vallance (former UK Chief Scientific Officer), which included the following recommendations:
17 July 2023
The Supreme Court has refused to extend the scope of consent as established in the landmark case of Montgomery and confirmed the appropriate test to be applied by healthcare practitioners when obtaining informed consent is the professional practice test.
06 July 2023
Practitioners and medical professionals alike will be interested to note the recent judgment of the Sheriff Appeal Court in McCallum v Morrison, 2023 in which the pursuer’s appeal against the dismissal of a psychiatric injury claim following a dentist’s failure to follow adequate infection control procedures was refused.
26 June 2023
Dr Cunliffe, the Medical Director of the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, had been accused together with fellow doctor Dr BA, of failing to protect patients from a risk of harm posed by Mr A, a Consultant Breast Surgeon at the Trust, in respect of concerns raised relating to Mr A’s performance and conduct.
15 June 2023
Phoebe Crane of our Professional Discipline and Clinical Defence team recently reported on the MPTS determination in General Medical Council v Dr Nithya Santhanalakshmi Shunmugavel Pandian. She looked at whether the MPTS was justified in reaching its conclusion that Dr Pandian did not carry out an examination that she recorded in the patient’s records.
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