Patient wins appeal over wrong diagnosis in discharge summary
Busselton Hospital in WA was cleared of negligence in 2019, but is headed back to court after the patient successfully appealed
A patient has successfully appealed for a retrial into a WA hospital’s negligence over having the wrong diagnosis on their discharge summary.
Last week the state’s court of appeal overturned a District Court of WA ruling in 2019 that found WA Country Health Service was not negligent in the case into the discharge summary that wrongly stated the patient had a subluxed, rather than a dislocated, shoulder.
