
Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare.
Title:
Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare.
Author:
Payne-James, Jason.
ISBN:
9780511187605
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents:
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 -- REASONS WHY PEOPLE COMPLAIN -- FRAMEWORK OF THE COMPLAINT -- THE COMPLAINTS PROCESS -- CONCILIATION -- THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW PANEL -- THE OMBUDSMAN -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- 8 The Mental Health Act (England and Wales) -- THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT COMMISSION -- Civil detention order -- Section 2: Admission for assessment -- Section 4: Emergency admission for assessment -- Section 5: Detection of informal inpatients -- Section 135 -- Section 136: Mentally disordered persons found in public places -- Section 3: Admission for treatment -- Section 7: Guardianship -- PATIENTS CONCERNED IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS (PART III OF THE ACT) -- Patients awaiting trial -- Section 36: Remand to hospital for treatment -- Convicted offenders.
Section 37: Hospital Admission or Guardianship Order -- Section 48 -- Section 38: Interim Hospital Order -- Section 47: Home Secretary's power to transfer sentenced prisoners -- Restricted Detention Orders -- Section 41: Order restricting discharge -- Section 49: Restriction of prisoners transferred to hospital -- PART IV OF THE ACT: CONSENT TO TREATMENT -- Section 57: Treatments requiring the patient's consent and a second opinion (from a SOAD) -- Section 58: Treatments requiring consent or a second opinion -- Section 62 -- Section 63 -- PART V: RIGHTS OF APPEAL -- The Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 -- The Human Rights Act 1998 -- Proposed new legislation -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 9 Death certification and the role of the coroner -- CORONERS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT -- DEATH CERTIFICATION -- NATURAL DEATHS -- UNNATURAL DEATHS AND INQUESTS -- JURIES -- PROCEDURES AT AN INQUEST -- Treasure trove -- FUTURE PROPOSALS -- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- 10 Tissues and organs -- INTRODUCTION -- CADAVERS -- FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1961 -- RETENTION OF HUMAN TISSUE - ALDER HEY AND BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY -- GOOD PRACTISE -- PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE HUMAN BODY AND TISSUES -- THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY -- THE MOORE CASE -- PROPERTY RIGHTS IN VIVO -- GAMETES AND EMBRYOS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES AND NOTES -- 11 Organ donation -- INTRODUCTION -- LEGISLATION -- THE HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1961 -- THE HUMAN ORGANS TRANSPLANTS ACT 1989 -- NHS ORGAN DONOR REGISTER -- DONORS OF ORGANS -- DEFINITION OF DEATH -- INCREASING THE NUMBERS OF DONORS AND THE UK -- MODEL OF ORGAN DONATION -- THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- 12 Living wills -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF LIVING WILLS -- SELF OWNERSHIP -- INFORMED REFUSAL -- CURRENT STATUS -- CRITERIA FOR A LIVING WILL -- HEALTHCARE PROXY.
THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES, NOTES AND FURTHER READING -- 13 Euthanasia and end-of-life decision-making -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITIONS -- END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS -- ENDING SUFFERING BY ENDING LIFE -- DOUBLE EFFECT AND LEGAL INTENTION -- TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL -- ASSISTED SUICIDE -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES AND NOTES -- 14 Abortion and reproductive health -- INTRODUCTION -- ABORTION -- CONTRACEPTION -- THE YOUNG PERSON -- THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PATIENT -- INFERTILITY -- SURROGACY -- SEX SELECTION -- REFERENCES -- 15 The Children Act 1989 -- INTRODUCTION -- Background -- MAIN POLICIES OF THE ACT -- Welfare -- Family care -- Parental responsibility -- No order -- Delay -- Contact -- Services for children in need -- Court structures -- Aims of the Act -- MAIN PROVISIONS OF THE ACT -- Public law -- Private law -- Other provisions -- Recent changes -- THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 -- REFERENCES AND NOTES -- 16 Clinical negligence -- CIVIL LAW AND NEGLIGENCE -- The Negligence 'Formula' -- Defendants in clinical negligence -- Duty of care -- Breach of duty and the standard of care -- The standard of care in professionals -- A variable standard -- SPECIFIC BREACHES OF DUTY -- DAMAGE -- CAUSATION -- LOSS OF A CHANCE -- DAMAGES -- LIMITATION PERIOD -- HEALTHCARE AND CRIMINAL LAW -- CIVIL PROCEDURE -- A DIFFERENT SYSTEM -- PAYING FOR JUSTICE -- REFERENCES AND NOTES -- 17 Legislation for medicines and product liability -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTROL OF MEDICINES -- Early UK legislation -- Early European legislation -- Current UK and European legislation -- The centralised procedure -- The mutual recognition procedure -- Application of the new EU legislation in the UK -- Framework legislation for pharmaceuticals -- Review of pharmaceutical legislation -- Proposed changes to the EMEA -- Proposed changes to the centralised procedure.
Proposed changes to the mutual recognition procedure -- THE MHRA -- PRODUCT LIABILITY -- Legislation covering product liability -- Manufacturing issues -- Prescribing problems -- Issues associated with use by patients -- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- 18 Clinical trials: ethical, legal and practical considerations -- INTRODUCTION -- Ethical issues -- International guidelines -- Consent -- The ethics of good science -- Ethics committees -- LEGAL ISSUES -- PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- 19 Medicolegal implications of blood-borne viruses -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF THE INDIVIDUAL BBVs -- Hepatitis B virus -- HDV -- HIV -- HCV -- THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW -- The proscriptive model -- The protective model -- The instrumental role -- AUTONOMY IN EUROPEAN LAW -- Legality of HIV testing, detention and compulsory treatment -- THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN THE UK -- The risk from infected blood products and the law -- UK CASE LAW -- UK GUIDANCE TO HCWs -- GENERAL PRINCIPLES APPLYING TO BBVs -- SPECIFIC GUIDELINES -- Hepatitis B -- Hepatitis C -- HIV -- UK LEGISLATION UNDER REVIEW -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- 20 Healthcare professionals in court - professional and expert witnesses -- INTRODUCTION -- Index.
Abstract:
Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare provides an overview of the most clinically relevant medicolegal issues for healthcare groups.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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