Regulating Healthcare Quality : Legal and Professional Issues. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Elsevier Health Sciences, 2004
- Softcover
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- Title
- Regulating Healthcare Quality : Legal and Professional Issues
- Author
- Tingle, John, Foster, Charles, Wheat, Kay
- Publisher
- Elsevier Health Sciences
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0750687843
- ISBN 13
- 9780750687843
- Item weight
- 2.205 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
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.
- 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
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