Who Should We Treat?: Law, Patients, and Resources in the NHS / Edition 2

by Christopher Newdick

Overview

The NHS has undergone substantial reform and investment since 1980, yet demand for care still exceeds supply and difficult choices remain between patients. Why is this so? On what basis should these decisions be made and by whom? As patients become 'consumers' of care, Who Should We Treat? puts patients' rights into their political, economic, and managerial perspectives to consider one of the most pressing problems in contemporary society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199264186
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	03/15/2005
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Christopher Newdick is a Barrister and the Reader in Health Law at the University of Reading. He is also an honorary consultant to Reading Primary Care Trust, and a member of the Berkshire Priorities Committee.

Table of Contents

1. Problems of Health Care Resources
2. Principles of Resource Allocation
3. Managing the Resource Allocation Process in the NHS
4. Organization of the NHS
5. Statutory Regulation of NHS Resource Allocation
6. Medical Negligence
7. Negligence of NHS Institutions
8. Accountability and NHS Governance
9. Private and Non-NHS Providers in the NHS
10. Trusting the NHS