Healthcare

Marguerite Kehoe BL reviews recent case law highlighting the systemic challenges face by the CFA in securing an adequate number of special care beds for minors requiring assistance. The inability of the Child and Family Agency (CFA) to provide sufficient special care beds has been the subject of sev

Free hospital car parking in Northern Ireland has to be delayed in part due to legal challenges affecting plans to use automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology, health minister Robin Swann has said. The Hospital Parking Charges Act (Northern Ireland) 2022, which bans the imposition of pa

Mark Connaughton SC has been appointed as the independent chair of the new Paediatric Spinal Taskforce. The government has established the multi-stakeholder taskforce in a bid to cut waiting times for children who need spinal surgery.

A national open disclosure framework for the health and social sector has been launched, applying beyond the HSE to all private health and social care providers as well as health regulators and educational bodies. The new framework was launched by health minister Stephen Donnelly at the National Pat

Katie Nugent of Hayes solicitors discusses a recent clinical negligence claim and the Court of Appeal's decision in respect of the role of interrogatories. In Ashling O’Sullivan (A minor) suing by her mother and next friend Grace O’Sullivan v Michael O’Riordan and Mercy University

The Mental Health Commission (MHC) has invited lawyers to assist in the development of new guidance and training on a human rights-based approach to care for mental health services. The MHC has engaged the Munster Technological University and its UNESCO Chair research centre to support the developme

Solicitor Deirdre O'Grady has been appointed to the board of Beaumont Hospital in Dublin for a 10-month term. Ms O'Grady has over 20 years' experience in legal, tax, governance, compliance and risk management.

The High Court has ruled that the Health Service Executive did not owe a duty of care to the parents of a woman who died from cervical cancer following an alleged misdiagnosis in the cancer screening process. The HSE had argued that the decision in Morrissey v. Health Service Executive and Ors. [201

Michael Graham, head of private client at Cleaver Fulton Rankin, considers changes to continuing healthcare in Northern Ireland in the wake of a High Court ruling. In a judgment delivered on 30 June 2023, Northern Ireland's High Court quashed the decision of the Department of Health to adopt a contr