A5043446418- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Ethics in medical practice
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Historical and Scientific Studies
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
- European and International Contract Law
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Law in Society and Culture
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Structural Analysis of Composite Materials
- Legal Cases and Commentary
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Health Services Management and Policy
University of Sussex
2016-2018
University of Manchester
2011-2016
Princess Alexandra Hospital
2009
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The Francis Report into failures of care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Hospital documented a series ‘shocking’ systematic failings in healthcare that left patients routinely neglected, humiliated and pain as the focused on cutting costs hitting government targets. At present, criminal law England plays limited role calling professionals to account for care. Normally, only if gross error leads death will doctor or nurse face prospect prosecution. Doctors nurses caring under Mental...
The criminal law looks set to play a larger role in regulating healthcare. Until recently, health professionals only faced the prospect of liability if it could be proved that their gross negligence resulted death patient. In such case, professional face charge manslaughter (GNM). Prosecutions for ‘medical manslaughter’ have generated concern among doctors worried about what is perceived as rise number facing prosecution and impact prosecutions are having on healthcare practice. May more...
The Williams Review has emphasised the need for a clear and consistent understanding of what constitutes GNM. What does this look like in practice, impact will it have?