The following article is published today in The Pharmaceutical Journal. It is largely concerned with pharmacist prescribing, but does make more general points about the risk of criminal prosecutions being brought against healthcare professionals who make an unintentional error.
Changing Roles, changing risks – the paradox of pharmacist prescribing
Anthony Cox and Sarah McDowell
West Midlands Centre for [...]
As the MMR controversy has started to abate and the evidence-based nails have continued to slam into the lid of Andrew Wakefield’s satin-lined coffin, it is interesting to look at how that is changing the nature of the leading anti-MMR vaccine movement in the UK – JABS (Justice Awareness and Basic Support – http://ww.jabs.org.uk).
Here’s [...]
Last year Wakefield was accused of using libel cases to suppress criticism. He has now dropped his claim, and agreed to pay the defendants’ costs.
UPDATE: Kevin Leitch has a more extensive post on this matter.