Healthcare Law

Legislation strengthening the regulatory framework for residential care for older people and people with disabilities is now fully in effect. Section 16 of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) ...

Major reforms to mental health legislation have been put back on the legislative agenda. The 202-section Mental Health Bill 2024, which will replace the existing Mental Health ...

The High Court has upheld a decision of the Medical Council refusing registration of a doctor who had been struck off the register of doctors in the ...

The High Court has accepted an undertaking on behalf of the CEO of the Mater hospital on foot of the hospital’s breach of court orders detaining a ...

Northern Ireland's health minister has launched a public consultation on the establishment of a statutory duty of candour in Northern Ireland. The consultation comes more than half ...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of a woman who claimed that she was required to undergo more extensive treatment than she otherwise would have ...

Northern Ireland’s High Court has awarded £50,000 in damages against the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and a consultant neurologist who negligently performed an unnecessary medical ...

Doctors are now under a legal duty to disclose serious patient safety incidents following the commencement of new legislation. The Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) ...

Legislation providing for the mandatory open disclosure of serious patient safety incidents is to be commenced in the coming days. The Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open ...

Northern Ireland is to make the biggest changes to its its public health legislative framework in nearly six decades. The Department of Health has launched a consultation ...

Bríd O’Flaherty BL has been appointed to chair the non-statutory inquiry into the historical licensing and use of the anti-epileptic drug sodium valproate (Epilim) in women of ...

The family of a woman who died from breast cancer after a delayed diagnosis have received a substantial settlement and a public apology from the HSE. Lynn ...

Carson McDowell associate Genevieve Brindley highlights a UK judgment on psychiatric illness negligently caused to 'secondary victims' and considers the possible implications in Ireland. In a recent decision ...

Doctors and patients are suffering mental harm as a result of Ireland's slow and expensive litigation process, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has said. A new MPS ...

The Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a clinical negligence claim in circumstances where no expert report had been obtained by the plaintiff’s solicitors almost ...