X-ray case tests time-limits rules

A health authority has been rapped on the knuckles by the Court of Appeal for destroying patients' x-rays after three years, in disregard of litigation time limits. West Lancashire HA landed an out-of-time negligence action which it might have avoided had it kept the xrays.

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