Sa'd v Robinson & Ors

(1989) 1 Med LR 41

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice LEGGATT

Medical practitioner — Negligence — Standard of skill and care — Failure by general practitioners to recognize seriousness of thermal injury to child patient's throat — Consequent failure to visit child, to realize that admission to hospital was dangerously urgent, and to accompany parents to hospital — Child taken by parents to paediatric ward instead of casualty — Child sustained irreversible brain damage — Liability of general practitioners. — Medical practitioner — Negligence — Standard of skill and care — Failure by consultant paediatrician to arrange for anaesthetist in order to intubate child casualty suffering from thermal injury to the throat — Child suffering irreversible brain damage — Liability of consultant paediatrician. — Hospital — Negligence — Standard of skill and care — Reception of casualty — Whether hospital under duty to assemble medical team to receive casualty