Medical law / Jo Samanta, Ash Samanta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Table of cases -- Table of legislation -- 1. The scope and nature of medical law and ethics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What is medical law? -- 1.3 Bioethics -- 1.4 Deontology -- 1.5 Consequentialism -- 1.6 Utilitarianism -- 1.7 Rights-based discourse -- 1.8 Principlism -- 1.9 Feminist ethics -- 1.10 Other ethical theories -- 1.11 The professional relationship -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 2. The contemporary health-care environment -- 2.1 Introduction -- A The structure of the NHS -- 2.2 The modern NHS -- 2.3 Central control -- 2.4 Commissioning -- 2.5 Provision of services2.6 Access to services -- B Quality management in the NHS -- 2.7 Quality in the NHS -- 2.8 The NHS Constitution -- 2.9 National Service Frameworks -- 2.10 Risk management -- 2.11 Clinical governance -- 2.12 Clinical guidelines -- C Patient safety -- 2.13 Safety culture -- 2.14 Reporting and learning from errors -- 2.15 Health-care-associated infections -- 2.16 Contemporary challenges -- D Allocation of resources -- 2.17 Scarcity of resources -- 2.18 Statutory provisions -- 2.19 Judicial review -- 2.20 The Equality Act 2010 -- 2.21 Effect of EU law -- 2.22 Resource allocation in practice -- E Confidentiality -- 2.23 The basis of confidentiality -- 2.24 Case law -- 2.25 The Data Protection Act 1998 -- 2.26 Exceptions to confidentiality -- 2.27 The deceased patient -- 2.28 The patient who lacks capacity -- 2.29 Professional guidance -- F Managing doctors' performance -- 2.30 Understanding professional performance -- 2.31 Early recognition and local resolution -- 2.32 The role of NCAS -- 2.33 The role of the GMC -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 3. Clinical negligence -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Duty of care -- 3.3 Breach of the duty of care -- 3.4 Causation -- 3.5 Damages -- 3.6 Institutional liability -- 3.7 Actions in contract -- 3.8 Reform of clinical negligence -- 3.9 Liability for medicines -- 3.10 Criminal negligence -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 4. Capacity and consent to medical treatment -- 4.1 Introduction -- A Pervasive issues -- 4.2 General considerations of consent and medical law -- 4.3 Treatment without consent -- 4.4 What is consent? -- B The competent adult -- 4.5 Lack of consent and battery -- 4.6 Negligent consent -- 4.7 Insufficient warning and causation -- 4.8 Questions posed by patients -- 4.9 Withdrawal and refusal of consent -- 4.10 Consent: medical professionalism and public policy -- C The adult who lacks capacity -- 4.11 Capacity -- 4.12 Decisions made on best interests -- 4.13 Advance decisions -- 4.14 Decisions made by appointed proxies -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 5. The beginning of life -- 5.1 Overview -- A Abortion -- 5.2 Introduction -- 5.3 Statistics -- 5.4 The ethics of abortion -- 5.5 The law -- 5.6 Grounds for legal abortion -- 5.7 Selective reduction -- 5.8 The living abortus -- 5.9 Contraception -- B Liability for negligent prenatal occurrences -- 5.10 Introduction -- 5.11 Terminology -- 5.12 Prenatal negligence leading to unwanted conception (wrongful conception actions).