Subjects:

Medical Law

Contents:

Health services structure. Financial aspects of structure and management. Buildings and premises

property. Personnel: conditions at work. Personnel: employment law. Treatment of patients. Treatment of mental disorder.

Hospitals - definition and classification; hospitals managed under the National Health Service Act 1977; voluntary hospitals; nursing homes - registration, conduct and inspection; legal proceedings against Health Authorities and Trusts; injury to the patient; consent to medical and associated treatment; complaints in the National Health Service; liability for premises; patients' property - loss or damage; visitors who refuse to leave; search and arrest of suspected persons; data protection; access to medical records and reports; medical records - ownership and preservation; professional confidence; employment law; nurses agencies; professional qualifications; injury at work; the charity commissioners and charity trustees; hospital charges; provision of pay beds; taxation of hospitals; births and deaths in hospital; organ transplants and disposal of the human body; patient making a will; illegal operations; notifiable diseases; medicines and poisons; mental health law.