Regulating Healthcare Quality

Description

The key focus of this edited text is on the legal and professional conflicts and issues that can arise from regulating health care quality. Doctors and nurses all increasingly face a number of dilemmas with regulating health quality issues such as increasing levels of complaints and litigation, scarcity of resources, under-staffing, professional discipline, clinical governance, clinical risk management etc. This book spells out and discusses these issues, taking an academic approach, though this will be tempered with a practical focus on issues.

Key Features

• Discusses ethical approaches to regulating health care quality
• Examines health care rights in the UK
• Looks at complaints procedures in the new NHS
• Presents alternatives to the present clinical negligence system
• Compares health care regulation in the US and UK

  Readership

  This book is designed for doctors, nurses and all those studying health law and health policy on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, for which this is an increasingly significant topic. The book will also be of interest to legal professionals. Other potential markets include the professional legal market (barristers and solicitors who specialise in health law); and the following staff in health trusts: clinical governance leaders, risk and litigation managers; directors of health quality.

  Table of Contents

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  Author Information

  By John Tingle, BA, Law(Hons), Cert Ed MEd Barrister, Director, Centre for Health Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK; Visiting Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago, IL; Charles Foster, MA(Cantab), Vet MB, MRCVS, of the Inner Temple, Barrister, Reader in Health Law, Barrister London and Kay Wheat, BA Solicitor, Reader in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK