Nursing Law and Ethics

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  1. SeeWhitehousev.Jordan[1981] 1 All ER 267 and in the USA,Demmerv.Patt788 F2d
    1387 /8 Cir 1986).

  2. Brazier, M. /1992)Medicine ,Patients and the Law,2nd edn. Penguin, Harmondsworth.

  3. Most famously by Lord Denning inWhitehousev.Jordan/1980) 1 All ER 650.

  4. Quoted by Picard, E. /1984)Legal Liability of Doctors and Hospitals in Canada.Carswell,
    Toronto.

  5. See Lee, R.G. /1998) Judicial review and access to health care, inJudicial Review and
    Social Welfare/Buck, T.) Carswell, Toronto.

  6. Montgomery, J. /1987) Suing hospitals direct: what tort?New Law Journal,137, p. 703,
    in reply to Bettle, J. Suing hospitals direct: whose tort is it anyhow?New Law Journal,
    137, p. 573.

  7. SeeCommonwealthv.Introvigne/1982) AWR 749,Kandisv.State Transport Authority
    [1984] 154 CLR 672 /both Australian HC) andAlbrightonv.Royal Price Albert Hospital
    [1980] 2 NSWLR 542 CC.A),Yepremianv.Scarborough General Hospital[1980] 110 DLR
    /3d) 513 which seems to accept this possibility; also Dugdale, A. & Stanton, K. /1989)
    Professional Negligence,2nd edn, para 22.22, Butterworths, London, who, speaking of
    duties to provide treatment under the National Health Services Act 1977, state that `it is
    undoubtedly the case that the effect of basing this duty on statute is to ensure that it is
    non-delegable in its nature'.
    13.The Times11 February 1987 /Court of Appeal). Quotes which follow are taken from the
    report at [1993] 4 Med LR 151, 156.


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