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Can the Bawa-Garba case result in a stronger NHS safety culture?

There is a frantic scramble to find a coherent response that maintains the confidence of the medical profession and the public

The manslaughter conviction and subsequent erasure from the medical register of paediatrician Hadiza Bawa-Garba has opened up a schism over healthcare safety that will harm patients if it is not resolved quickly.

On one side is the jury, which gave a 10:2 majority verdict for gross negligence manslaughter over the death of six-year-old Jack Adcock in 2011; the General Medical Council (GMC), which wanted Bawa-Garba struck off; and the high court, which backed the GMC.

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Continue reading... February 23, 2018 at 07:56PM

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