New Powers to End Life Extension of powers of attorney under Mental Capacity Act will allow relatives to instruct doctors to withdraw 'life sustaining treatment', including food and water 14.05.07 Daily Mail, Assisted Death
Solicitor Sacked for Having Cancer Solicitor Susan Garnett, diagnosed with breast cancer, is suing Metropolitan Police for unfair dismissal, claims officer told her they had policy of not offering permanent contracts to people with serious illness 08.05.07 BBC, Employment Law
Consultation on Human-Animal Hybrids Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority (HFEA) has launched public consultation on creation of human-animal, using animal embryos to create human stem cells 26.04.07 BBC, Human Fertility
Hewitt Defends Mental Health Bill Secretary for Health has defended amended Mental Health Bill, says law must follow practice of care in the community, need for a means to supervise vulnerable patients and ensure treatment and medication 18.04.07 Guardian, Criminal Justice, Mental Health
Resistance to Mental Health Bill Campaigners challenge Mental Health Bill as it approaches final stages, concern that people with mental illness will simply be locked away, untreated and without extra care 16.04.07 ePolitix
Relationship Ban With Ex-Patients Medical professionals will be banned from sexual relationships with ex-patients, other than where clinical contact was 'minimal', according to new guidelines from Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) 11.04.07 Daily Mail
Industry Hails OFT Drug Inquiry Pharmacists and wholesalers have welcomed OFT inquiry into distribution of prescription drugs, AstraZeneca and Novartis intend to follow Pfizer example, which has signed exclusive deal with Unichem 05.04.07 Guardian, Competition Law, Pharmaceuticals
Leigh Day to Challenge POVA Human Rights solicitors Leigh Day have been instructed to make an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) following the High Court ruling in Wright & Others, legislation governing provisional listing on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) list is incompatible the ECHR 27.04.07 Judgment in Wright and Others, Leigh Day Press Release, Human Rights
OFT Inquiry Into Medicine Distribution Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced a market study into the distribution of medicines in the UK, prompted by a move by pharmaceutical companies, led by Pfizer, to supply their products direct to pharmacies rather than selling to wholesalers for resale 04.04.07 Law Now, Competition Law, Pharmaceuticals
Reform of Medical Regulation White paper sets out plans to reform regulation of medical professions, GMC to lose disciplinary powers, GMC Affiliates to be established to coordinate governance of doctors, nurses and pharmacists DoH Press Release Therapists to be regulated 22.02.07 Telegraph
Pharmaceuticals ECJ decides generic medicines may be marketed even if they are 'essentially similar' to the proprietary medicine they are copied from 18.02.05 Law Now, Pharmaceuticals
Refusal to Supply Stock management policies operated by pharmaceutical
companies for dominant products have received some important
encouragement in a preliminary opinion by Advocate General
Jacobs in the Syfait case 02.11.04 Law Now, Competition Law, Pharmaceuticals
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Challenge to Pfizer Unichem Deal Eight drug wholesalers, supported by Dispensing Doctors Association (DDA), have launched a legal action to challenge Pfizer deal to sell its prescription drugs exclusively through Unichem 02.03.07 BBC, Competition Law, Pharmaceuticals
Internet GP Supplied Death Drug Julian Eden, who operates e-med.co.uk, supplied teenage suicide with beta-blockers despite history of mental illness, supplied drugs to others beyond point of addiction, claims he was acting in 'some of the patients best interests' 16.02.07 Times, Internet Regulation, Medical Negligence
Cancer From Hugging Father Debbie Brewer is suing Ministry of Defence for £75k, diagnosed with mesolthelioma, asbestos-related cancer attributed to inhaling dust on her father, who worked as a lagger at Devonport dockyard 15.02.07 Daily Mail, Asbestos, Personal Injury
HFEA Raids Taranissi Clinics Inspectors from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) have searched under warrant two London fertility clinics run by Mohammed Taranissi, Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre (ARGC) and the Reproductive Genetics Institute (RGI) 16.01.07 Times, Human Fertility
