Revealing the identity of NHS staff: what is in a name?

For some years, judges have, during High Court proceedings relating to the end of a child’s life, made orders prohibiting the naming of clinicians who have been involved in the child’s care and treatment. The order, known as a Reporting Restriction Order (RRO, ‘freezing order’), may or may not extend for a short period following the child’s death. In June 2021, the High Court heard two joined cases1 where parents sought to question whether the court had the authority to keep in place the RROs made during the proceedings that had concerned their respective children. In both cases, their children had subsequently died. The RROs had both been widely drawn with either the consent of, or without opposition from, the children’s parents. Each of them was of unlimited duration with no expiry date. Both purported to cover all staff who ‘...had played any part in the provision...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Clinical law for clinical practice Source Type: research