BMJ  2006;332:135 (21 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.135

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Hospital trust prosecuted for not supervising junior doctors

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent

BMJ

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A UK hospital trust faces a potentially large fine after pleading guilty to failing to properly supervise two junior doctors whose gross negligence led to a patient's death. The judge over-seeing the case, thought to be the first of its kind, said that it had implications for the whole NHS.

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust admitted that it had not adequately managed two senior house officers, Amit Misra and Rajeev Srivastava, who were working at Southampton General Hospital in June 2000 when Sean Phillips, aged 31, died of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome.

A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that he believed it was the first time that an NHS trust had been prosecuted under the Health and Safety Act for the way junior doctors were managed.

Mr Phillips, who had been admitted for a routine knee operation, developed a bacterial infection, which the two doctors failed to . . . [Full text of this article]


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