Leg length discrepancy is one of the most common complaints our medical negligence lawyers are seeing post total hip replacement surgery.
Australia’s population is ageing with people over 65 making up 15% of the total population. In older age comes …
Dr Richard Reid, Obstetrician-Gynaecologist, was found guilty of professional misconduct in September 2018 following a number of complaints brought by the Health Care Complaints Commission. Sixteen of his former patients from a Sydney private hospital assisted the NSW Civil and …
What is a ‘reportable incident’ for the purposes of a Root Cause Analysis under The Health Administration Act 1982
It is fundamentally important for the proper delivery of public health services that serious clinical incidents are identified, investigated and processes …
The New South Wales Government will claim that our public health system is completely open and transparent when it comes to the release of information around the administration and reporting of adverse clinical events.
In respect of our own Hunter …
Our specialist medical negligence lawyers have extensive experience with claims involving orthopaedic negligence.
Orthopaedics is the medical specialty that focuses on the musculoskeletal system. This includes bones, muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments. Orthopaedic surgeons perform surgeries such as repairing broken …
Traumatic births frequently lead women to consider whether there are any legal avenues for redress, particularly where the mother and/ or the baby are left with challenging injuries. Mothers are motivated by a number of factors, some of these are:…
Incident investigations in NSW public hospitals are required when there are poor outcomes and adverse clinical incidents. The reporting and investigation of poor outcomes and adverse clinical incidents are important to maintaining and improving the quality of the provision of …
Limitation periods in the medical negligence arena were a feature of the recently decided Supreme Court decision of his Honour Walton J in Lewicki v Hunter New England Local Health District [2020] NSWSC 1037 . This matter gives important guidance …
Ghosh v Medical Council of NSW [2020] NSWCA 122
The Medical Council has the power to suspend or impose conditions on a doctor’s registration if it is satisfied that it is appropriate to do so for the protection of the …
A frequent medical negligence issue we see relates to poor communication in radiology and pathology reporting where a failure to report all the findings of diagnostic tests results results in severe outcomes for the patient.
Radiology scans which include: X-Ray, …