Event Details:
A full day event exploring Heart Surgery and the Law.
Hosted and Chaired by Mr Mazyar Kanani, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, and with invited legal experts, cardiac surgeons and a cardiologist who are guest speakers from across the UK including Dr Jonathan Lillekar (Teesside University), Dr Murray Earle (University of Edinburgh), Dr Victoria Moore (University of Manchester), Dr Louise Austin (University of Leicester), Dr Dougie Muir (South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Professor Martin Elliot (Chief of Cardiothoracic surgery (Emeritus) Great Ormond Street Hospital and Gresham College, London UK) and Professor Aung Oo (Barts Health NHS Trust), the event will cover:
- Litigation in Heart Surgery; data from NHS Resolution
- Foundations of Clinical Negligence; Understanding the Distinction between Criminal and Civil Law
- The Duty of Care
- Building the elements of negligence: Standard of Care & Causation
- Informed Consent: Beyond Bolam and Back Again?
- From Bolam to Adomako: When ‘mere medical errors’ become ‘truly ‘exceptionally bad’: Gross Negligence Manslaughter and Fatal Medical Errors
- Consent: Reasonable alternative treatments: The role of Bolitho
- Consent in minors
- Open-source Diabetes technologies: On clinician liability and patient safety
- The law meets heart surgery: development of congenital heart surgery in the UK and learning from Bristol:
- Transcatheter Aortic valve implantation: History and challenges to its growth
- Aortic valve replacement in Barts: how we manage our local guidelines
Talks will be followed by a round table discussion: Aortic valve replacement guidelines: who makes the rules?
CPD points will be confirmed (application in progress)
For any questions relating to this event, please email [email protected]
Cancellations:
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Certificates and feedback:
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