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Published on: 22 May 2025

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Court finds that defendants’ experts’ opinions were not logically defensible

The King’s Bench Division in Hodgson v Hammond [2025] EWHC 1261 (KB) upheld the claimant’s clinical negligence action against two general practitioners for missing and failing to treat pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Both doctors were held to have breached their duty of care by not performing, or arranging, a pelvic examination, which was required to confirm or rule out PID in light of the claimant’s presentation and prior history. Applying the Bolam and Bolitho principles, the court concluded that, given the symptoms, the background, and the low threshold for suspecting PID, there was no responsible cohort of medical practitioners who could reasonably endorse the omission of a pelvic examination to verify or exclude the working diagnosis...

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