Sir Liam Donaldson said patients
deserve to receive quality healthcare
- UK Clinical negligence law defines negligence as any
act or omission which falls short of a standard to be expected of
"the reasonable man."
- It is necessary to show that whatever the Doctor did or
did not do fell below the standard of a reasonably competent Doctor in
that field of medicine.
- In the case of "Bolam – v – Friern Hospital
Management Committee 1957," it was stated that a doctor must act in
accordance with a practice which is accepted as proper by a responsible
body of men
- There are several acceptable ways of doing something
and this may mean that there is no negligence if an alternative method is
chosen.
- The fact that another person would not have done things
in the same way does not automatically mean that there was clinical
negligence.
- The Doctor will be able to defend the compensation
claim successfully, if it can show that a responsible body of reputable
Doctors in the relevant field would have acted in a similar manner.
- This means that a judge will hear evidence from experts
and decide whether the actions taken were appropriate.
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