Duty of Care – Forceps Delivery: The Court held that the Defendant hospital had breached its duty of care by proceeding to deliver a baby by forceps delivery on the ward in circumstances where accepted obstetric management technique had required a trial of forceps in theatre. The resulting cerebral palsy suffered by the baby had been caused by the hospital's negligence.
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No negligence where staff failed to diagnose and treat congenital spinal defect: Notwithstanding the claimant's symptoms, neither her doctor nor medical staff at a hospital where she was examined were at fault for failing to diagnose and treat a congenital spinal defect that resulted in her contracting meningitis and subsequently suffering from a disability.
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Failure to provide prompt and appropriate care and intensive support: The defendant hospital's negligent failure to provide prompt and appropriate care with intensive support was held to have caused the death of the claimant's wife from pneumonia.
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Meningococcal infection – duty to assess aggregate symptoms and signs: In cases involving suspected meningococcal infection in a child, it was held that there is a requirement that GPs should assess the aggregate symptoms and signs that exist, even if those symptoms and signs could, individually, be assessed as non-indicative of meningococcal infection. A doctor should consider whether, by reason of their aggregate presence or their totality, when taken with the general condition of the child, a ...
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