Research Handbook on Patient Safety and the Law

Edited by John Tingle, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, Caterina Milo, School of Law, University of Sheffield, UK, Gladys Msiska, School of Nursing, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi and Ross Millar, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK

‘An essential guide to assessing the systemic failures that put patient safety and well-being at risk, the Research Handbook on Patient Safety and the Law explores the challenges to improved patient care using multi-disciplinary and international perspectives. The book provides an in-depth exploration of the legal, ethical, and policy issues at work and offers pragmatic responses to the complex array of factors that endanger patients.’

• Contents: 1 Patient safety and the law: an introduction 1 John Tingle, Caterina Milo, Gladys Msiska, and Ross Millar 2 The need for more conceptual underpinning in NHS patient safety and clinical negligence policy development 10 John Tingle 3 The law and ethics of informed consent after Montgomery and the safeguard of patients’ safety 22 Caterina Milo 4 ‘Non-therapeutic’ clinical research with children: responsibility in the balance? 37 Amber Dar 5 Balancing on a knife edge: patient safety and autonomy in the psychiatric context 56 Mollie E. L. Cornell 6 The role of tort law in protecting patient safety and autonomy in Australia 74 Barbara McDonald 7 Healthcare in conflict: legally protected, physically at risk 90 Emma J. Breeze 8 Does legalising abortion reduce deaths from unsafe abortion? Experiences in sub-Saharan Africa 108 Calum Miller 9 Physiotherapy in the UK: the second victim in a perfect storm? 125 Sue Greenhalgh, James Selfe, Laura Finucane, and Gillian Yeowell 10 Patient safety at the end of life: the role and limits of the law in England and Wales 141 Adam McCann 11 The ‘patient-friendly’ medical injury liability rules in Germany: implications for patient safety? 165 Marc Stauch 12 Patient safety in Germany 177 Dagmar Luettel, Victoria Klemm, and Reinhard Strametz 13 Patient safety, global governance, and the right to health in integrated primary health care 193Jonathan Gorry, Linda Gibson, Denis Joseph Bukenya, Pauline Odeyemi, and Michael Obeng Brown14 Patient safety and the global health agenda 206Paulo Sousa, Ana Catarina Rodrigues, and José Pedro Teixeira15 Patient safety in Uruguay 221Homero Bagnulo, Alejandro Castello, and Carlos Vivas16 Pregnancy and childbirth risks: clinical and legal perspectives 237Pedro Melo, Abdea Coomarasamy, and Arri Coomarasamy17 Patient safety challenges and practical ethical legal issues in low- and middle-income countries 257Gladys Msiska, Evelyn Chilemba, Martha Kamanga, Chisomo Mulenga, Annie Namathanga, Patrick Mapulanga, and Abigail Kazembe18 Child safety in developing countries 278Felistas Chiundira and Pempho Katanga19 Patient safety consciousness in healthcare education 297Gladys Msiska, Gervasio Nyaka, Wanangwa Chikazinga, and Patricia Katowa-Mukwato20 Developing patient safety standards 314Helen Hughes21 Dr Robot: robotics and AI in healthcare 336Angela Eggleton22 Patient safety and the law: a thematic review and assessment of future options 369Ross MillarIndex 377