Over the last week there has been an outpouring of anger and concern from the medical profession following a High Court ruling in the case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba.
In 2015, Dr Bawa-Garba was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence following the tragic death in 2011 of Jack Adcock, a six-year old boy with Down’s Syndrome and a heart condition. She was given a suspended sentence and was later also suspended from the medical register by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service for a year. The General Medical Council – the doctors’ regulator – appealed this decision. It wanted Dr Bawa-Garba to be struck off the medical register and the High Court last week ruled in its favour.
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