Doctor-Hospital Relationship

  • Read more: Improving the safety of maternity care in the National Health Service (NHS) and other medico-legal matters
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    Improving the safety of maternity care in the National Health Service (NHS) and other medico-legal matters

    By John Tingle There are some very interesting Government patient safety and access to justice policy development activities currently going on in England. Maternity Services In maternity services, there is a clear recognition by Government that safety is inconsistent and that there is significant scope for improvement. Our still birth rates are amongst the highest in…

  • Read more: Doctors Conducting Peer Review Can Recover Compensatory and Punitive Damages for Confidentiality Violations
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    Doctors Conducting Peer Review Can Recover Compensatory and Punitive Damages for Confidentiality Violations

    By Alex Stein The Supreme Court of New Mexico has recently delivered an important decision protecting peer reviewers’ statutory entitlement to confidentiality. Yedidag v. Roswell Clinic Corp., — P.3d —- (N.M. 2015), 2015 WL 691333. The Court ruled that peer reviewers can sue violators of their confidentiality right and recover compensatory and even punitive damages. This…