Regulating health care quality :  legal and professional issues / 
edited by John Tingle and Charles Foster. 
 - Edinburgh :  Butterworth-Heinemann,  2004. 
 - 208 p. :  col. ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Clinical governance: a means for improving and regulating quality--2. Health policy and provision: Public management and its influence on regulation in England--3. Cost implications and ethics of healthcare quality regulation--4. Fault and blame in the NHS: review and replaement of the clinical negligence system in the UK--5. Creating a level playing field? The influence of user and provider grievances in the shaping of healthcare policy.--6. Disciplinary jurisdiction over the medical and other healthcare professions--7. The implications of the Human Rights Act 1998 - prioritising consent--8. The impact of the human rights act 1998 on healthcare in the UK--9. How effective is the human rights act 1998 in protecting genetic information?10. Tort law and medical quality: some lessons from the USA--11. Ethics and healthcare resources--12. Regulating the quality of health care through Judicial Review. 
<br/><br/> This text is based on a conference that took place in Nottingham in May 2002. It looks at the interface between health regulation, health care quality, law and ethics. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780750687843 (pbk.) :  £25.00 0750687843 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004556656 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical policy--Great Britain<br/>Medical ethics--Great Britain<br/>Health services administration--Quality control--Great Britain<br/>Medical care--Quality control--Law and legislation--Great Britain<br/>Health and Wellbeing.<br/>Nursing<br/>Health systems & services
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA399.A1 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.10941 TIN