Nursing Law and Ethics

`...Thefearoflitigationamongsomanydoctorsisoftenbasedonignoranceof thelegalsystem.Ihaveheard,forexample,ofdoctorswhoareunclearab ...

5.3 Law and health policy: changing the balance of power In short a new balance between professional legal practice autonomy and ...

dutyofeachHealthAuthority,PrimaryCareTrustandNHSTrusttoputandkeep inplacearrangementsforthepurposeofmonitoringandimprovingthequa ...

Clinicalgovernanceisunderpinnedbythestatutorydutycontainedinsection18 and includes the following components which health bodies ...

time to come. In the care equation, when interests are being balanced, patients' shouldbeparamount.Wewillallhavetoseewhetherthis ...

A First Class Service: Quality in the New NHS. June 1998. Department of Health, London. Faster Access to Modern Treatment: How ...

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Chapter 6 Negligence A The Legal Perspective Charles Foster Lawyers use the word negligence', confusingly, in two ways. First, t ...

employee instead of or as well as the employer, but generally it would be foolish for aclaimant to do so when the claimant knows ...

held that there was no doctor±patient relationship between the claimant and the second defendant, and that accordingly no duty o ...

`... in cases of diagnosis and treatment there are cases where, despite a body of professional opinion sanctioning the defendant ...

the person giving the care, rather than to the rank or status of that person or to the individual characteristics or training of ...

general, and far less prescriptive than those imposed by the Senate of Surgery and the GMC, and nurses are unlikely to find that ...

6.4 Causation 6.4.1 The conventional rule The claimant has to show that but for the defendant's negligence he would probably hav ...

6.4.3 Causation: material contribution Sometimes it will be impossible for the experts to say that the defendant's default has, ...

clinical negligence litigation. It is potentially extremely helpful to claimants in cases where experts cannot be pressed to agr ...

reasonable steps to reduce the total sum of damages payable. Thus he is not entitled to buy in extravagantly priced care, or go ...

buying in that care and then reduces this sum by about 25±33% to take account of the fact that no tax or National Insurance has ...

Hybrid heads of claim Some heads of claim do not fall neatly within the above categories. The best example is damages for loss o ...