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Citation
(2005), "Regulating Healthcare Quality - Legal and Professional Issues", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 18 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2005.06218dae.005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Regulating Healthcare Quality - Legal and Professional Issues
Regulating Healthcare Quality – Legal and Professional Issues
John Tingle, Charles Foster and Kay WheatButterworth and Heinemann Health2004ISBN 0 75068 7843
Keywords: Healthcare quality, Complaints management, Clinical governance
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.
Contents include:
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Clinical governance: a means for improving and regulating quality;
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Health policy and provision;
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Cost implications and ethics of health care quality regulation;
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Fault and blame in the NHS;
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Creating a level playing field?;
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Disciplinary jurisdiction over the medical and other health care professions;
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The implications of the Human Rights Act 1998;
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Tort law and medical quality: some lessons from the USA;
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Ethics and health care resources; and
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Regulating quality of health care through judicial review.