1st Edition

Patient Safety Law, Ethics and Practice in the NHS Towards a Management Culture

310 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This comprehensive volume critically examines patient safety in the NHS, discussing both policy initiatives and practical issues with reference to management culture, the legal context and ethical concerns. The book explores the multiple dimensions of healthcare ethics and safety, tracing the legal landscape's evolution around patient safety and examining clinical negligence processes and their... Read more

1-    Patient safety law, ethics and practice in the NHS: Towards a management culture: An introduction

John Tingle, Dita Wickins Drazilova, Steve Gulati, Angela Eggleton and Marc Stauch

 

2-    The long and winding road to NHS patient safety culture development

John Tingle

 

3-    Ethical and legal aspects of consent and patient safety in the UK healthcare system

Jeremy Wickins and Dita Wickins-Drazilova

 

4-    The professionalisation of healthcare safety investigations

Mark Sujan, Sophie Hide, Andrew Murphy-Pittock, and Rosemary Lim

           

5-    Claimant perspectives on clinical negligence litigation

Guy Forster

 

6-    Vulnerable migrants’ access to primary health care: A patient safety issue

Antje Lindenmeyer, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Lucy Jones and Jenny Phillimore

 

7- Is there a system of safety in the NHS?

Brian Cox

 

8-    Equality, diversity, inclusion and the impact on patient safety

Dita Wickins-Drazilova, Emily Bracegirdle-Morais, Zainab Janjua, Sia Pandey and Whitney Paxi

 

9-    Beyond the silos: Leadership, accountability and integrated safety in health and social care

Sheena Gohal and Ian Lewis

 

10- Is healthcare leadership the key to patient safety?

Steve Gulati

 

11- Restorative just culture in healthcare: Evidence from second victim narratives

Clare Holt

 

12- Informed consent and hope: Ethical intersections

Barbara A. Reich

 

13- Health justice partnerships and developing a national model in England

Amber Dar

 

14- Healthcare decision-making for children with medical complexity: Combating breakdown of trust by building relationships

Kirsty Moreton and Rachel Wright

 

15- Open-source diabetes technologies: On clinician liability and patient safety

Victoria Moore and Muireann Quigley

 

16- Avoiding harm in palliative care – an Aristotelian perspective

Derek Willis

 

17- The role of law and policy in curating safety cultures within a complex healthcare system: Identifying the opportunity within the challenge

Naomi Assame

 

18- Patient safety, law, leadership, conclusion. Drawing chapter themes together

Steve Gulati and Marc Stauch

 

Biography

John Tingle, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK

Dita Wickins-Drazilova, Birmingham Medical School, University of Birmingham, UK

Steve Gulati, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK

Marc Stauch, Law Faculty, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

Angela Eggleton, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK