Time

Session

9:15 – 9:45

Registration/ Coffee

9:45 – 10.00

Introduction and Welcome

10:00 – 11.20

Professor Margaret Brazier (University of Manchester)

‘Doctors and Quacks: Before the Age of Deference’

Professor Rachael Mulheron (QMUL)

‘A Duty of Care by Doctors to Relatives: Where to From Here?’

11:20 – 11:35

Coffee

11:35 – 13:00

Professor Rob Heywood (UEA) and Professor Jose Miola (University of Leicester).

‘The Changing Face of Pre-Operative Medical Disclosure: Placing the Patient at the Heart of the Matter’

Dr Victoria Chico (University of Sheffield)

‘Using and Disclosing Confidential Patient Information and the English Common Law: What are the Information Requirements of a Valid Consent?’ (co-written with Dr Mark Taylor).

13.00 – 13.50

Lunch

13.50 – 15.10

Associate Professor Sandy Steel (University of Oxford)

‘Three Causal Problems in Medical Negligence’

Emeritus Professor Michael A. Jones (University of Liverpool)

‘The Cost of Medical Negligence’

15.10-15.25

Break

15.25-16.00

Mr Ian Cohen (Slater Gordon)

‘A Practitioner’s Perspective’

16.00-16.15

Closing remarks