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Clinical Negligence: What does a clinician have to tell the patient?
Julian Matthews looks at the case law and some recent illustrations ‘The touchstone for liability in clinical negligence claims remains the Bolam test, and Chester and Birch do not warrant a wholly different approach in cases concerning advice.’ The standard of care the law requires of a doctor has become well established using the terms …
Cases Referenced
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- Birch v University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2008] EWHC 2237 (QB)
- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
- Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1997] UKHL 46
- Chester v Afshar [2004] UKHL 41
- Cutting v Islam [2014] EWHC 720 (QB)
- Meiklejohn v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust [2014] EWCA Civ 120
- Pearce v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust [1998] EWCA Civ 865
- Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] UKHL 1