Published Article
Health and Social Campaigners News International. Issue 27 March 2006
HSCNews International invited Josephine Ocloo, senior lecturer in social work at London Metropolitan University, England, to look at the subject of medical litigation from the viewpoint of her own experiences. Ms Ocloo provides a critical examination of the systems of investigation that are open to victims of medical harm in the UK.
Josephine Ocloo believes that the death of her 17-year-old daughter, Krista, in December 1996, was the result of medical negligence at a London hospital. Ms Ocloo mounted a campaign which led the management body (or Trust) of the hospital to hold an inquiry into children’s care at the hospital. Extraordinarily, Ms Ocloo was invited by the Trust in 2001 to sit on a hospital committee charged with implementing the inquiry’s recommendations. In January 2003, she became the Chairperson of the hospital Trust’s Patients’ Forum, where she has been successful in developing lay involvement in patient safety work. She also succeeded in getting the Trust to recognise that it had not been promoting race equality and diversity in its work (leading the Trust to make a commitment to address such issues).
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