Take Care Now

Take Care Now was an independent provider of Out-of-hours services in England. The company had contracts in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney, and Worcester.

Civil action against the company

In May 2009, civil legal action was begun against Take Care Now after a locum doctor, Daniel Ubani recruited by TCN, through a locum agency, was convicted of manslaughter for giving a patient an overdose of morphine.[1] He had flown into the UK the day before his 12-hour Cambridgeshire shift for Take Care Now and had only had a few hours' sleep.[2] A spokeswoman for the Care Quality Commission said: ""We are aware of a number of concerns in relation to out-of-hours care provided by Take Care Now to the NHS."[3]

Demise

Take Care Now has been taken over by Harmoni and is now trading as Suffolk Integrated Healthcare.

gollark: So I had to screen-record it and play it back slowly.
gollark: There was a fun issue in potatOS a while ago where it errored at startup, but some other process cleared the screen after initialization so I couldn't read the error.
gollark: I've got a reasonably functional "orbital laser" control system, just no actual orbital lasers on any visited server, because they tend to randomly shoot each other (and my important stuff) because I can't make the claims work out properly.
gollark: I really ought to deploy that on CNLite or something and tie it to the orbital lasers.
gollark: For the original incarnation of the traffic light project.

References
  1. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/may/04/german-doctor-patient-overdose
  2. "Dr Daniel Ubani: No UK extradition over patient death". BBC News. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8032124.stm
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.