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David Lock

David Lock: Have NHS leaders failed to “speak truth unto power”?

January 11, 2017

This is blog is not a rant—well not too much of a rant. It is an expression of serious frustration about the way the NHS is run and about the […]

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David Lock: Who has a legal duty to fund post-trial treatment?

July 7, 2015

If someone has been in a clinical trial, do they have a legal right to ongoing treatment for as long as treatment is clinically appropriate where the clinical trial was […]

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David Lock: Avastin and Lucentis—It’s time for NHS commissioners to act rationally by limiting the choices for wet AMD patients

September 26, 2014

The news that a Cochrane Review has concluded that Avastin (bevacizumab) is as safe as Lucentis (ranibizumab) to treat patients with wet age related macular degeneration (“wet AMD”), along with other […]

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David Lock: Ghana—not a smoker in sight

May 8, 2014

I have just returned from two weeks in Ghana, a fascinating and challenging country on so many fronts, but significant because I hardly saw a single Ghanaian smoking throughout my […]

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David Lock: Do CCGs have the power to pay out for past PCT NHS continuing care errors?

February 11, 2014

The NHS has paid out vast amounts—probably hundreds of millions of pounds—in recent years as a result of decisions that patients were not entitled to NHS Continuing Care (where the […]

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David Lock: Should accident victims who get a payout be entitled to free NHS care?

February 3, 2014

At a time when NHS bodies are under more financial pressure than ever before there is one anomaly which is worth highlighting. Personal injury victims can be paid damages on […]

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David Lock: Inconsistent CCG legal duties—can the circle be squared?

January 2, 2014

There are times when, as a lawyer advising NHS bodies, I get close to advising that the law is unworkable. An example emerged the day when I had to deal […]

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David Lock on the landmark case concerning the future of Lewisham Hospital

December 18, 2013

The problem of how to tackle poor performing NHS trusts has dogged the NHS for many years. Companies that fail can be put into liquidation, factories close down, and people […]

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David Lock: Suicide, refusing treatment, and consent in the dying process

June 28, 2013

This is an anonymised story about how a doctor’s misunderstanding of the law around managing the death of a patient with capacity appears to have caused unnecessary suffering. It is […]

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David Lock: Should GPs aspire to run medical services businesses?

May 30, 2013

It is hardly surprising that hard pressed GPs have reacted angrily to unjustified criticisms by the secretary of state for health that they are to blame for faults within the […]

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