Advice and Aortic Valves

Negus v Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWHC 643 (QB) The facts The claim was brought by the executors on behalf of the estate of Mrs Tracy Neill. On 4 March 2014 the Deceased underwent the implantation of a 19mm mechanical aortic valve. The Claimants alleged that…

When Medical Technology Goes Wrong (Update)

Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd and Stryker UK Ltd [2021] CSIH 6 Back in QMLR Issue 4 we covered Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd in the Outer House of the Scottish Court of Session. That case dealt with the question of what happens when medical technology goes wrong and the…

“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…

When Medical Technology Goes Wrong

Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd and Stryker UK Ltd [2019] CSOH 96  This article originally appeared in Issue 4 (March 2020). Modern medicine increasingly makes use of sophisticated technology, from algorithms for assisting in diagnosis to robots for surgical procedures. But what happens when the technology goes wrong; who is…