Christopher Newdick

Who Should We Treat?

Rights, Rationing, and Resources in the Nhs

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This completely revised new edition puts patients' rights into their political, economic and managerial contexts. It considers the implications of the Bristol Inquiry and the rhetoric of patients as 'consumers' of care. In balancing the rights of individuals with those of the community as a whole, it deals with one of the most pressing problems in contemporary society.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199264179
• ISBN-10: 0199264171
• Artikelnr.: 22413078

Autorenporträt

Christopher Newdick is Professor of Health Law at the University of Reading. He is also Honorary Consultant to Berkshire West PCT, and a member of the Berkshire Priorities Committee.

Inhaltsangabe

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