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Regulating Healthcare Quality: Legal and Professional Issues
Contributor(s): Tingle, John (Author), Foster, Charles (Author), Wheat, Kay (Author)
ISBN: 0750687843     ISBN-13: 9780750687843
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
OUR PRICE:   $62.32  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: July 2004
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Medical | Nursing - Social, Ethical & Legal Issues
Dewey: 362.109
LCCN: 2004556656
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 220 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
The key focus of this edited U.K. 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 U.K. book spells out and discusses these issues, taking an academic approach, though this will be tempered with a practical focus on issues.
  • Discusses ethical approaches to regulating health care quality
  • Examines health care rights in the UK
  • Looks at complaints procedures in the new NHS
  • Presents alternatives to the present clinical negligence system
  • Compares health care regulation in the US and UK