Medical litigation

Summary

The World Health Organization has reported that medical errors are reaching unacceptable levels. Today, the only form of redress available to many victims of medical harm is lit igation. HSCNews asked seven individual health campaigners or their groups to suggest potential ways forward.

Contents

• Health Campaigners Discuss Medical Litigation
  • Introduction
  • A view from Europe: Dr Gustavo Lpez-Muoz y Larraz
  • Denmark: Dansk Selskab for Patientsikkerhed
  • Poland: Dr Adam Sandauer
  • The UK: Josephine Ocloo
  • The UK complaints procedure
  • UK health campaigning groups that specialise in issues of medical litigation, or in patient safety
  • Coverups and silence
  • Key UK government inquiries, guidelines and legislation on medical errors and liability
  • The USA: Dr Stephen Schoenbaum
  • US health campaigning groups that specialise in issues of medical litigation, or in patient safety
  • The USA: Martin Hatlie
  • The USA: PULSE
• In Focus: Two Campaigns Aimed At Preventing Chronic Disease
• The Strange Case Of Diabetes In Vietnam
  • Pandemic of rich and poor alike
  • The poor cannot afford treatment
  • Prevention is the way forward
  • The Indian experience is replicated in South-East Asia
  • How to change people's lifestyles
  • The WDF and the IDF: the challenges ahead
• Efforts To Publicise Women's Heart Disease In Europe
  • A case for intervention
  • Women's health in Europe: a March 2006 report
  • What has the EU done for women's health and heart disease?
  • The risk factors
  • Intervention strategies
  • A call to action
  • A lukewarm reception from the European Commission
  • Challenges ahead for EHN/ESC
• Members' News
• Events
• Advertorials