Regulating healthcare quality : legal and professional issues /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Edinburgh ; New York : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.
Description:	xix, 198 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical care -- Quality control -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain. Health services administration -- Great Britain -- Quality control. Medical ethics -- Great Britain. Medical policy -- Great Britain. Health services administration -- Quality control. Medical ethics. Medical policy. Great Britain.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5477113

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Varying Form of Title:	Regulating health care quality
Other authors / contributors:	Tingle, John. Foster, Charles, 1962- Wheat, Kay.
ISBN:	0750687843
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Clinical governance: a means for improving and regulating quality
Health policy and provision: public management and its influence on regulation in England
Cost implications and ethics of health care quality regulation
Fault and blame in the NHS: review and replacement of the clinical negligence system in the UK
Creating a level playing field?: the influence of user and provider grievances in the shaping of health care policy
Disciplinary jurisdiction over the medical and other health care professions
The implications of the Human Rights Act 1998 - prioritising consent
The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on health care in the UK
How effective is the Human Rights Act 1998 in protecting genetic information?
Tort law and medical quality: some lessons from the USA
Ethics and health care resources
Regulating quality of health care through judicial review

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