Archive for the ‘Litigation / Medical Malpractice’ Category
Monday, February 8th, 2010
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a medical malpractice law enacted in 2005 that limited monetary damages to $1 million from hospitals and $500,000 from doctors for pain and suffering, the Chicago Tribune reports. "The much-anticipated ruling deals a blow to doctors and hospital officials who say caps on damages are a way to tame rising health care costs. ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
A man who used a forged document to obtain an NHS bursary and train as a mental health nurse has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for fraud at Sheffield Crown Court (18 May 2009) after a joint investigation by NHS Counter Fraud and the UK Border Agency. Ignatius Dube pleaded guilty to seven charges, receiving 21 months imprisonment for each, to run concurrently. The total value of the fraud was £70,683.60 of which £56,296.
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
An NHS substance misuse nurse who worked illegally in Chelmsford prison has been sentenced to a total of one year's imprisonment (13 May Chelmsford Crown Court) following an investigation by NHS Counter Fraud and the UK Border Agency. Definate Tendayi Mukwe's last leave to remain in the UK expired in February 2003 and she was refused an extension, but in 2004 began training to become a Registered Nurse.
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
NHS 'whistle blowers' need a safe way to expose bad practice without jeopardising their careers, Unite, the largest union in the country, said. Unite was commenting on the case of nurse Margaret Haywood struck off for secretly filming neglect of elderly patients in a hospital for BBC's Panorama programme. Unite's National Officer for Health, Karen Reay said that the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 'appeared to be somewhat heavy handed' in striking Ms Haywood off the register.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
A nurse convicted of assaulting his partner's teenage daughter has been struck off the professional register by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC). Christopher Baldwin, 58, from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, was sentenced in June 2007 at Haverford Magistrates Court to a twelve month Community Order after being found guilty of striking Lauren Farr, his partners daughter, in the face and twisting her arm.
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