Medicolegal essentials in healthcare
Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare provides a concise overview of the most clinically relevant medicolegal issues for healthcare groups in England and Wales, and is a valuable resource for medical, dental and nursing students in training as well as being a useful quick reference for practitioners in these fields. Each chapter is written by a leading expert on the subject, and as such provides up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive coverage, identifying key areas of controversy and enabling readers to put contemporary medicolegal issues into their appropriate clinical context. Key features include: " Focuses on issues of immediate relevance to healthcare professionals " Chapters written by leading experts in the field " A knowledge of medicolegal issues is of increasing importance to all healthcare professionals, as society generally becomes more litigious, and practitioners face the threat of legal claims against them
eBook, English, 2004
Greenwich Medical Media ; Cambridge University Press, London, New York, 2004
Législation
1 online resource (xxi, 260 pages)
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"Cover"; "Half-title"; "Title"; "Copyright"; "Contents"; "Contributors"; "Editors� note for the first edition"; "Editors� note for the second edition"; "Foreword"; "Table of statutes"; "Table of cases"; "1 Legal institutions and the legal process"; "SOURCES OF LAW"; "Parliamentary law"; "Delegated legislation"; "STRUCTURE OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE"; "Control of executive powers"; "Ministerial responsibility"; "Parliamentary review and Select Committees"; "Tribunals"; "Public inquiries"; "The Ombudsman"; "Judicial review"; "Human Rights Act 1998 (see also Chapter 2)"; "JUDICIAL LAW." "Branches of law""The Civil Courts in England and Wales"; "The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council"; "The Criminal Courts in England and Wales"; "Coroner Courts"; "REFERENCES"; "2 Human rights and healthcare professionals"; "HUMAN RIGHTS"; "European Convention on Human Rights"; "Cultural relativism"; "Right to health"; "International humanitarian law"; "HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS"; "Dual responsibilities"; "Psychiatry"; "CONCLUSION"; "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"; "REFERENCES"; "3 Medical ethics and the forensic physician"; "THE THERAPEUTIC ROLE"; "THE FORENSIC ROLE"; "Consent." "Confidentiality and privacy""Records"; "FURTHER READING"; "4 Confidentiality"; "DISCLOSURE TO THE PATIENT"; "Responsibilities"; "Rights"; "DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES"; "DISCLOSURE WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE PATIENT"; "Disclosure to relatives and others caring for the patient"; "Disclosure to other healthcare professionals"; "Disclosure as a statutory requirement"; "Disclosure to employers and insurance companies"; "Disclosure to social services and the police"; "Disclosure to the courts"; "Disclosure to the coroner"; "Disclosure for medical teaching, research, audit, and administration." "CONCLUSION""REFERENCES"; "FURTHER READING"; "5 Consent to medical treatment"; "VALID CONSENT"; "CAPACITY"; "Adults"; "Adults lacking capacity"; "Emergency treatment in adults"; "Mental illness and the Mental Health Act 1983"; "Refusal of treatment (adults)"; "Advance directives, anticipatory declarations, living wills"; "Withdrawal of medical treatment"; "Consent to medical treatment in minors"; "16 to 17 years of age"; "The under 16s"; "Refusal of treatment (minors)"; "Children and young persons lacking capacity"; "Parental responsibility"; "Emergency treatment of children." "KNOWLEDGE AND THE SUFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION""FORM OF CONSENT"; "REFERENCES AND NOTES"; "6 Professional bodies and discipline"; "INTRODUCTION"; "GMC"; "Structure and functions of the GMC"; "Registration"; "Fitness-to-practice procedures"; "Conduct procedures"; "Performance procedures"; "Health procedures"; "Interim Orders Committee"; "Other relevant bodies"; "Appraisal and revalidation"; "NMC (FORMERLY UKCC)"; "Professional conduct"; "Misconduct"; "Fitness to practise"; "Interim suspension"; "CLINICAL GOVERNANCE"; "REFERENCES"; "7 Complaints in the National Health Service"; "INTRODUCTION."
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