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Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 is a Scottish delict, medical negligence and English tort law case on doctors and pharmacists that outlines the rule on the disclosure of risks to satisfy the criteria of an informed consent.
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), also known as the Patient Advice and Support Service (PASS) in Scotland, is a National Health Service body created to provide advice and support to NHS patients and their relatives and carers. The scheme was announced in the NHS Plan 2000. Pilot schemes were set up in 2001, with full nationwide ...
NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for the health care of more than 652,000 people living within the council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire in Scotland, making it the third largest health board in the country after NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and NHS Lothian. [3] NHS Lanarkshire employs approximately 12,000 staff. [4] The board is ...
It is now used by over 90% of NHS trusts [2] and is supported by the Scottish government, which encouraged health boards to engage with the website with £160,000 funding in 2013. [3] In 2022 more than 500 organisations were using Care Opinion. [4] It offer patients opportunities: to give feedback on their health services
1 August – An investigation into NHS Lanarkshire by the Information Commissioner's Office finds that staff shared the personal details of patients through an unauthorised WhatsApp group on 500 occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff were allowed to communicate through WhatsApp during the pandemic, but it was never authorised for ...
Doherty suffered from schizophrenia. Doherty was a patient of the Gartnavel Royal Hospital at the time and his family filed a complaint with the hospital. However the investigators reported that they could not make the inquiry results available to Doherty's family. [14]
The remit of the Ombudsman was extended in 1973 to cover the National Health Service. In 1996, the Ombudsman was empowered to investigate complaints about clinical judgment. By law, complaints made to the Parliamentary Ombudsman about UK Government departments and other UK public organisations must be referred by a Member of Parliament (MP).
In 2009 NHS Lanarkshire developed seven possible combinations of keeping three A+E departments open; these were subsequently delivered for public scrutiny. [13] In November 2017, NHS Lanarkshire renamed all three of its acute hospitals - Hairmyres, Monklands and Wishaw General - with the prefix 'University Hospital' to reflect their new ...