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Oct 30, 2023 · Medical negligence (also called clinical negligence) is when a clinician fails to provide a patient with adequate and appropriate care, leading to avoidable harm. Medical negligence exists as a concept in society and in the law because people are sometimes harmed by inappropriate or sub-standard care.
5. Complain to the ombudsman. If you're unhappy with the final response from your GP practice, you can take your complaint to the Health Service Ombudsman. The ombudsman is independent of the NHS and is free to use. It can help resolve your complaint and tell the NHS how to put things right if it has got them wrong.
Dr Ed Mitchell, Clinical Fellow to Martin McShane, NHS England’s Director for Long Term Conditions, reflects on how the patient-doctor relationship is changing: Being ill isn’t what it used to be; blame it on long term conditions. In the 1950s, a founding father of medical sociology, Talcott Parsons, described illness as deviance -as health is […]
Dec 3, 2023 · Doctors can’t refuse to treat a patient without a justified reason. For example, it’s not acceptable for a doctor to refuse treatment based on a patient’s personal characteristics. This includes factors such as race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, or disability. Refusing treatment on these grounds ...
Dec 23, 2018 · When a doctor deliberately sets out to harm a patient, this can intuitively appear to be a sound reason for turning to the criminal law to deal with the matter. But cases where there is no such intent can be more morally challenging. Take, first, the case of Dr Simon Bramhall, who branded his initials on the donor kidneys of two patients during ...
Our sanctions for doctors. We have a range of actions we can take on a doctor’s registration. We can take action to make sure we protect patients, maintain confidence in the medical profession and uphold the standards we expect of doctors. We can give doctors a warning. Or we can agree undertakings with them in certain cases.
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49 Penalty for pretending to be registered. U.K. (1) F1... any person who wilfully and falsely pretends to be or takes or uses the name or title of physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner or apothecary, or any name, title, addition or description implying that he is registered under any provision of this Act, or ...
