An online resource for those interested in the implications for patient care resulting from the increasing trend for doctors and other healthcare workers to be prosecuted in the criminal courts when patients die.

This is an online resource for those interested in the implications for patient care resulting from the increasing trend for doctors and other healthcare workers to be prosecuted in the criminal courts when patients die.

The use of charges of gross negligence manslaughter (GNM) in healthcare is of great concern. This test is whether any breach of care ” was so bad in all the circumstances that (s)he was placed” as to constitute a crime.