Jenny Vaughan: The Bawa-Garba case should usher in a fairer culture in healthcare (9 May 2019)

Summary

In 2011, trainee paediatrician Hadiza Bawa-Garba was convicted of manslaughter over the death of six-year-old Jack Adcock. In this blog for the BMJ, medical law campaigner Jenny Vaughan looks at how the case has raised the issue of legal responsibility for care within a stretched medical system, for a whole generation of doctors.