Fitzsimmons v Northumberland Health Authority

(1990) 1 Med LR 208

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice BROOKE

Negligence — Nursing practice — Safe system of working — Foreseeability of risk — Back injury to auxiliary nurse while moving spastic patient with student nurse — Whether foreseeable that patient's legs would buckle and student nurse would withdraw support — Training and practical instruction in respect of moving patients who are paralysed or unable to help themselves due to physical defect — Whether hoist should have been used — Whether three nurses should have been deployed