In England alone, around 120,000 people per year develop sepsis. Out of those, about 30,000 die. These are serious numbers. In the last 5 years or so, Sepsis protocols have been developed to deal with this medical condition. The media has helped increase awareness, including awareness inside the medical profession. Fatality and septic shock Sepsis …
Few doctors and fewer patients have any idea that it’s a crime for a doctor to treat a patient without the patient’s consent. I don’t mean assault and battery. That’s old news. That criminal offence was formulated in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, and is still the good law. A …
You’d expect the answer to “what is the negligence in clinical negligence” to be straightforward. Like a car accident. Someone crushes your rear bumper. Unless there’s a really good explanation, that driver’s negligent. A restaurant serves you meat that’s gone off. Your sick. The restaurant’s negligent. In a clinical context – hospital, GP, dentist, …
The Government reports 2,726,721 people had contact with NHS secondary mental health services in the period 2018/19 – about 4% of the population of the UK. If you take out the under 18s (632,261), and the elderly (340,040 – a high proportion of whom will require help because of dementia), this leaves 1,752,420 adults …
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In The Sweeney – the infamous 70s TV police drama – Regan and Carter, Flying Squad officers of dubious morality – justify their behaviour with compelling platitudes – once a villain, always a villain! Who needs evidence? They know villains are “guilty as sin”. The mental health sector can seem depressingly similar, even now, …
