Medical regulation for the public interest in the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
William Roche
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Regulation ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject

Regulation of the medical profession has a long history in the United Kingdom but a number of high profile failures of National Health Service (NHS) organisations to deliver safe health care and the unlawful killing of more than 200 patients by one rogue doctor have led to a clamour for change. Many of these tragedies have been the subject of public inquiries and have created significant public disquiet about the role and effectiveness of the medical regulator. United Kingdom governments have responded to these inquiries by means of a combination of strengthening professional regulation and the introduction of new mechanisms of appeal against the sanctions imposed on doctors by tribunals. The historical development of medical regulation is reviewed and the more recent changes to address the public interest and crises in the confidence in the regulation of health care are described.

Health care Online

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-25
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Medical Opinion ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Subject

The BMJ has always been recognised as a leading medical journal for a wide range of subjects, and has always been useful for nurses to access for up to date and current medical opinion. Recently the BMJ has diversified to take on a more political nature, with its content reflecting a more proactive approach to influencing health care policy in the United Kingdom by the medical profession. As such the BMJ has become extremely useful for identifying opinions of current ‘hot topics’ for nurses that are headline news such as nurse consultants, hospital administration and central government policy. However, one problem remains, trying to find the original copy in the library will remain difficult. After spending the best part of an hour to suddenly realise that ‘how silly you are for not realising that BMJ March 1997 is filed in the British Journal of Nursing section 1998!!’ is often a frustrating and demoralising experience - particularly if after finding the article you find it has nothing to do with the subject that you are researching. This problem is to be banished forever with the BMJ website. The full BMJ is available free on line. The excellent search engine is particularly useful and is accurate when matching target articles. All articles are available for ‘full text’ downloads free of charge.

scholarly journals The Determinants of Charity Misconduct

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diarmuid McDonnell ◽  
Alasdair C. Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Regulatory Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Dataset ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Scrutiny

Charities in the United Kingdom have been the subject of intense media, political, and public scrutiny in recent times; however, our understanding of the nature, extent, and determinants of charity misconduct is weak. Drawing upon a novel administrative dataset of 25,611 charities for the period 2006-2014 in Scotland, we develop models to predict two dimensions of charity misconduct: regulatory investigation and subsequent action. There have been 2,109 regulatory investigations of 1,566 Scottish charities over the study period, of which 31% resulted in regulatory action being taken. Complaints from members of the public are most likely to trigger an investigation, whereas the most common concerns relate to general governance and misappropriation of assets. Our multivariate analysis reveals a disconnect between the types of charities that are suspected of misconduct and those that are subject to subsequent regulatory action.

Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to enquire into the State of Lunatic Asylums in Scotland, and the existing Law in reference to Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in that part of the United Kingdom. 1857

1857 ◽  
Vol 3 (22) ◽  
pp. 548-566
Author(s):  
J. C. B.
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The State ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lunatic Asylums

On few occasions has the great heart of the public been more deeply moved than by the recent revelations of the Scotch Lunacy Report. The report itself is a document remarkable not only for the information it contains, but for the soundness of opinions which it expresses, and for its general good sense, moderation, and justice. It is excellent, both in matter and manner, and is highly creditable not only to the whole of the Commissioners, whose industry in their vocation it illustrates, and whose opinions it enunciates, but it is so in the highest degree to the particular Commissioner to whom was entrusted the task of drawing it up, and whose enlightened views and wide knowledge on the subject of insanity, our associates will have no difficulty in recognising.

Appropriating Liberation

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Kew
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Animal Liberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
The Media

AbstractMedia and nonhuman animal liberation is an under-researched area in the United Kingdom. If the most appropriate metaphor describing the media/social movement relationship is "dance," then largely the media and animal liberation are dancing in the dark of neglect. Drawing upon different approaches to media and offering some notes toward animal liberation media studies, this article explores how, by engaging with the "established terms of the problematic at play," animal liberationists and their claims are appropriated by speciesist ideology through exclusion and confusing and redefining maneuvers. A contextual analysis of its typical texts raises questions of the public interest role, due impartiality of media and, implicitly, of movement strategy.

scholarly journals Whistle-blowing and the equality dimension of victimisation in the workplace

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Sam Middlemiss
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Whistle Blowing ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
General Law ◽  
Unfair Dismissal

A considerable amount of attention has been given to the general law of victimisation under the Equality Act 20101 but scant consideration has been given to the equality aspect of victimisation relating to whistle-blowing in the United Kingdom, and the present article will address this. The term whistle-blowing relates to workers making certain disclosures of information relating to their employer’s activities in the public interest. Most workers in the public, private and voluntary sectors are protected from victimisation by making a protected disclosure under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. However, only qualifying disclosures (defined below) are protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. The protection against victimisation covers unfair dismissal and an action for suffering a detriment. However, this article will concentrate on the latter. In the process of considering the legal rules in the United Kingdom, the human rights dimension of cases will be considered as will comparison with the law in the United States.

The Role and Responsibilities of Actuaries in the Defined Contribution Environment in the United Kingdom

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-800
Author(s):  
M.A. Stocker ◽  
S.D. Dudley ◽  
G.E. Finlay ◽  
H.J. Fisher ◽  
O. C. Harvey Wood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Defined Benefit ◽  
Defined Contribution ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThis paper takes an overview of the potential roles and responsibilities of pension scheme actuaries in the United Kingdom in relation to defined contribution (DC) schemes.First it summarises briefly the background to UK retirement provision and in particular the move to DC arrangements. The paper then compares and contrasts the pension scheme actuary's current role in both defined benefit (DB) and DC schemes. This is then developed to consider what further statutory roles there may be for actuaries in DC schemes.The paper challenges the profession to champion the public interest by seeking clarity and simplification, and finally considers the impact on actuarial employment.

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