Posted inInquiries Issue 6

“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…
September 1, 2020Posted inInquiries, Issue 6Tags:
Posted inIssue 4 Personal injury

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…
March 1, 2020Posted inIssue 4, Personal injuryTags: