News & Events
News & Events
Anthony Haycroft has successfully defended a Preston GP who was a paediatric specialist in the GMC accused of lying and perjury. The GP faced allegations in connection with two patients. The first was a 3 week old baby who died the day after the GP saw the baby in February 2009 of a very rare condition, myocarditis.
News 14 May, 2012
Anthony Haycroft has defended a single handed general practitioner at a fitness to practice panel hearing in the General Medical Council. The doctor faced numerous failings including alleged dishonesty in retrospectively altering clinical notes as well as failings concerning missed referrals, not following up blood test results and not having a proper system to action over 500 pieces of correspondence found in his room.
News 24 Apr, 2012
Ben Bradley, instructed by Anthony Gold to represent the family of the deceased, successfully invited HM Coroner for NW London to make a rule 43 recommendation to the London Ambulance Service (“LAS”). LAS currently automatically cancels ambulances in circumstances where patients are triaged into the lowest category of severity. The coroner will ask LAS to review the manner in which it communicates this cancellation to service-users. At present, service-users could be left with the impression the ambulance is still on its way. The coroner was not critical of LAS but has recommended that their systems be reviewed. The coroner also found that failings on the part of one of the NHS Trusts involved in the care of the deceased, contributed…
News 24 Apr, 2012
Judgment was handed down today at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Browne. Mr Browne who was represented by Andrew Short QC and Andrew Allen at the EAT, was successful in resisting the Trust’s appeal.
News 10 Feb, 2012
