Legal News (Healthcare Law)

The Safe Prescribing and Dispensing of Controlled Drugs, a joint initiative between the Medical Council and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), has recently been revised for 2024.

The Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 (“The Act”) was enacted on 2 May 2023 and was commenced on 26 September 2024.

In this, the second article in the series of “Embracing Change” published following the Conference ‘Embracing Change: Working Better Together’ which we hosted in June 2024 we welcome the publication of the report of the Interdepartmental Working Group chaired by Professor Rhona Mahony.

The Court of Appeal, in the case of O’Neill v Birthisle[1] upheld the dismissal of a medical negligence claim where the plaintiff had not obtained an expert report eight years after the claim had issued.

The Court of Appeal recently reduced an award of damages granted by the High Court in view of the trial judge’s approach to assessing quantum, clarifying how quantum is to be determined where there are multiple injuries inflicted at the same time.

The High Court recently gave judgment in a claim for nervous shock arising from the death of the plaintiff’s husband. In a considered decision in the case of Germaine v Day [2024] IEHC 420, the High Court examined the law applicable to nervous shock claims arising from alleged medical negligence, a