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Regulating Healthcare Quality: Legal and Professional Issues
Regulating Healthcare Quality Legal and Professional Issues Author:John Tingle, Charles Foster, Kay Wheat The key focus of this edited U.K. 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, profess... more »ional discipline, clinical governance, clinical risk management, etc. This U.K. book spells out and discusses these issues, taking an academic approach, though this will be tempered with a practical focus on issues.
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