As an MPS member I have just queried this with them, and was reassured to
learn that it was not a UK case. Phew!
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:03:57 +0000, John Rattenbury <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>I don’t know whether anyone else reads Medical Protection Society case
>reports as an alternative to Alton Towers.
>In vol 13 No. 4, Nov 2005, p 17, a histopathology department mixed up two
>samples resulting in unnecessary excision of a lesion. The hospital
>concerned claimed the Pathologist was solely liable for signing the
>original report. There was a settlement of £35,000.
>I have always understood that liability was accepted by the NHS on behalf
>of its staff other than for private, category II or other similar non-NHS
>work. The report does not make clear that it was NHS work in an NHS
>hospital. If so, it could be scary for those of us authorising reports.
>
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