Charles Cooper | Barrister

Category: medical

Shaheen & Anor v. Daish [2025] EWHC 3056 (KB)

The Court finds that the GP defendant ‘…failed to tell/inform the deceased that a chest x-ray was required and that he needed to attend the local walk-in radiology department in order for the chest x-ray to be carried out’ where, despite evidence in person to the contrary, ‘There is no record in the appointment note…
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A London NHS Trust v. DT [2025] EWCOP 36

Prior to the diagnosis of death through the 2025 Code [of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death] the individual concerned Is not dead as a matter of law – MCA 2005 applies and consequently in the absence of agreement for brain stem testing to be carried out, or the arrangements for them, an application…
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Anaesthetists Utd, R v. GMC [2025] EWHC 2270

While Physician Associates (PAs) and Anaesthesia Associates (AAs) are currently only advised ‘to say that they are not medically qualified if they are engaged in a task or function that a patient might reasonably expect a doctor to perform’, and despite there being ‘ample evidence that patients and the wider public do not know or…
Read more: Anaesthetists Utd, R v. GMC [2025] EWHC 2270