The Organisation of the Medical Profession in the United Kingdom

2015 ◽  
pp. 37-52
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The United Kingdom

The Future of Informed Consent in British Common Law

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Common Law ◽  
European Convention ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law

AbstractWithin the common law world, the use of the term informed consent implies the American doctrine. Informed consent as a doctrine is not part of the law in the United Kingdom. However, it is possible to predict a way forward in disclosure cases yet to be heard in the courts of the United Kingdom. These predictions are based on current developments in the common law in the United Kingdom as well as those in Canada and Australia, on the European convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine and on trends within the medical profession itself in the light of the Bolam test.

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.

"The Medical Profession of the United Kingdom"

BMJ ◽  
1889 ◽  
Vol 1 (1478) ◽  
pp. 972-973
Author(s):  
W. Rivington
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The United Kingdom

In Whose Interests?

2021 ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Emily Jackson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
The Core ◽  
The United Kingdom

This chapter will argue that the core justification for the United Kingdom’s ‘blanket ban’ on assisted suicide—namely that it is necessary in order to protect ‘the vulnerable’—has tended to obscure two other important sets of interests. First, it has served to marginalize the interests of patients who are not vulnerable, and who have been used to exercising considerable control over their lives. There is evidence from countries which have legalized assisted dying that it is this non-vulnerable group of patients who are its principal users. Second, the core justification for the ‘blanket ban’ has deflected attention away from the interests of the medical profession itself, which in the United Kingdom has a long tradition of organized and powerful opposition to assisted suicide.

"The Medical Profession of the United Kingdom"

BMJ ◽  
1889 ◽  
Vol 1 (1475) ◽  
pp. 805-806
Author(s):  
W. Rivington
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The United Kingdom

Giant Hogweed Dermatitis

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 315-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Drever ◽  
J. A. A. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Oil Emulsion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Heracleum Mantegazzianum

Phyto-photo-dermatitis due to contact with the giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) is described in 13 patients. The plant, which is illustrated, is spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom, and few people have been aware of its effect on the skin. The problem was brought to the notice of the public and medical profession by carefully organised publicity, as it was felt that education provided the most effective means of prevention of the dermatitis. The only recommended form of herbicidal control is the use of 2,4-D acid in oil emulsion, or a commercial TBA+MCPA mixture.

Clinical Negligence Reform: Lessons from France?

2003 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health System ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Liability Rules ◽  
Patients Rights ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New System

On 4 March 2002, the French legislature enacted the ‘Patients’ Rights & Quality of the Health System Act’ which introduces reforms in the relationship between the medical profession and the patient.1 As part of this wider reform, Part IV of the Act establishes a new system for the compensation of victims of medical accidents. The new legislation retains the traditional liability rules but puts in place a parallel system which aims to guarantee compensation for serious accidents, whether or not the accident is caused by negligence, without the need to resort to litigation in these cases. The new French rules are of considerable interest in view of the current debate in the United Kingdom on clinical negligence reform.

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