“Let the Doctors Decide”

Bell and A v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and others [2021] EWCA Civ 1363 In Bell and A v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and others [2021] EWCA Civ 1363 the Court of Appeal advised judges to avoid formulating policy in an area of social and moral complexity. Ever…

A Review of Recent Regulatory Decisions

R (on the application of Young) v General Medical Council [2021] EWHC 534 (Admin) Haris v General Medical Council [2021] EWCA Civ 763 Bux v General Medical Council [2021] EWHC 762 (Admin) Gupta v Northampton Hospital Trust [2021] EWHC 965 (QB) During the pandemic, the public’s gratitude to the medical…

“First Do No Harm”

The Independent Medicines & Medical Devices Safety Review (The Cumberlege Review)  This article originally appeared in Issue 6 (September 2020). “We have been astonished,” wrote the authors of the Cumberlege Report, “how the healthcare system – which includes the NHS, private providers, the regulators and professional bodies, manufacturers, and policymakers…