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The Bawa-Garba case
Most recent coverage of the case:
Take a look at The BMJ's coverage of the case:
- Bawa-Garba case: GMC chief executive should resign, says consultants’ union
- Don’t use our fees to pay Bawa-Garba’s court costs, doctors tell GMC
- Jenny Vaughan: The long road to justice for Hadiza Bawa-Garba
- Hadiza Bawa-Garba wins right to practise again
- Daniel Sokol: Reflections on Bawa-Garba—a symbol of the medical profession’s discontent
- David Nicholl: Bawa-Garba—From blame culture to just culture
- Bawa-Garba case fallout: five minutes with . . . David Galloway
- Readers respond to the Hadiza Bawa-Garba case
- GMC responds to concerns raised by Bawa-Garba case
- How should doctors use e-portfolios in the wake of the Bawa-Garba case?
- Paediatrician convicted of manslaughter must be erased from register, rules High Court
- Back to blame: the Bawa-Garba case and the patient safety agenda
- Bawa-Garba case has left profession shaken and stirred
- Criminalising doctors
- Editor's Choice: There but for the grace of God . . .
- David Oliver: Should NHS doctors work in unsafe conditions?
- Margaret McCartney: Doctors and families must be able to work together for safer care
- Expert urges doctors to report themselves to GMC
- Daniel Sokol: Knocking out written reflections
- Is a doctor convicted of gross negligence manslaughter always an unsafe doctor?
- Avoiding blame and liability is vital to learning from errors and engineering a safer NHS
- Rachel Clarke: The Hadiza Bawa-Garba case is a watershed for patient safety
- Rachel Clarke: Hadiza Bawa-Garba could have been any member of frontline staff working in today’s overstretched NHS
- Deborah Cohen: The Bawa-Garba case, the GMC, and a “tragic circle”
- Charlie Massey: We are committed to making health services a place for learning, not blaming
- An uncomfortable mismatch between control and responsibility
- “When something goes wrong in healthcare there is never one person to blame”
- Institutional racism is still a major problem in the NHS
- Is medical culture complicit in covering up the reality of NHS care?
- Margaret McCartney: Clinical errors need a systemic response
- Readers respond to the Hadiza Bawa-Garba case
- GMC calls for law change to make doctors’ reflections legally protected
- Bawa-Garba granted Court of Appeal challenge against erasure ruling
- Race played no part in Bawa-Garba decision, says GMC
- New guidance on reflective practice to be published in wake of Bawa-Garba case
- “We would employ Hadiza Bawa-Garba,” say 159 paediatricians
- BMJ Opinion by Nick Ross: GMC, heal thyself
News timeline
- Hadiza Bawa-Garba can return to practice under close supervision
- 2018: Law on gross negligence manslaughter is flawed, says leading medical lawyer
- 2018: Bawa-Garba’s original suspension was right decision, argues lawyer in appeal against erasure
- 2018: After Bawa-Garba: what the future holds for a medical profession feeling let down by its regulator
- 2018: BMA can intervene in Bawa-Garba’s appeal against erasure, court rules
- 2018: Bawa-Garba granted Court of Appeal challenge against erasure ruling
- 2018: GMC calls for law change to make doctors’ reflections legally protected
- 2018: Paediatricians condemn treatment of Bawa-Garba
- 2018: GP leaders pass vote of no confidence in GMC
- 2018: Bawa-Garba to appeal High Court ruling and may challenge manslaughter conviction
- 2018: Health secretary orders review into use of medical manslaughter
- 2018: Paediatrician convicted of manslaughter must be erased from register, rules High Court
- 2017: GMC begins High Court appeal over suspension of paediatrician convicted of manslaughter
- 2017: GMC to push for erasure of paediatrician convicted of manslaughter
- 2017: GMC appeals decision not to strike off doctor convicted of manslaughter
- 2017: Doctor convicted of manslaughter is suspended from register for a year
- 2016: Paediatrician is denied permission to appeal against manslaughter conviction
- 2015: Doctor gets suspended prison sentence for not giving priority to “very sick boy”
- 2015: Paediatrician found guilty of manslaughter after boy’s death from septic shock
- 2015: Doctors facing manslaughter charges should not automatically be suspended, High Court rules
- 2014: Doctor and two nurses charged with manslaughter over death of boy at Leicester Royal Infirmary
Letters
- GMC’s push for erasure of paediatrician is questionable
- Wider effects of the Bawa-Garba case on medical practice and public safety
- GMC erasure: it could have been me
- Doctors do not feel protected when things go wrong
- Criminal and professional sanctions impede honesty and improvement
- GMC should deal forcefully with repeatedly dishonest doctors
- Letter to the GMC chair regarding Hadiza Bawa-Garba
- GMC erasure case: how we learn from human error
- Association of Surgeons in Training responds to GMC erasure case
- GMC erasure case: we must improve systems to mitigate inevitable mistakes
