Court dealt with history-taking in ED

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent England and Wales Court of Appeal case that considered the standard of care expected of doctors in history-taking in emergency departments In May 2017, the England and Wales Court of Appeal delivered its judgment in a case in which the mother of a teenage girl brought an appeal on her behalf against a decision of the High Court dismissing a claim for negligence against an NHS Trust. The appeal concerned a hospital A&E (or emergency department) consultation that took place in September 2003, when the girl was 13 months old. When the matter…