Who Should We Treat?: Law, Patients and Resources in the NHS [Hardcover]

Christopher Newdick (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198259247 | ISBN-13: 978-0198259244 | Publication Date: December 28, 1995

Books about the National Health Service have been written by economists and doctors, but it is difficult to get an overall picture of the legal implications of subject. Who Should We Treat? is written by a lawyer who considers the competing aims of patients, doctors and managers for NHS resources. It is the first book to put scarce resources in the NHS into a legal framework.

Editorial Reviews

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`'Where the book succeeds is in its treatment of the legal issues...It deals systematically with the place of both common law and statute in decisions as to who will or will not have access to care. The account of this complex body of law is clear and informative.'' British Medical Journal

`'It is an incredibly detailed book, littered with appropriate and useful references.'' Journal of Community Nursing

`'the book is clear, interesting, easy to read and admirably places in context the work of any lawyer in the health field.'' Weekly Journal of the Law Society Gazette

`'a comprehensive and very readable book which highlights the varying and complex relationships that arise between law and the provision of our health services...a welcome and necessary introduction to all those who seek to study health care and the management of its resources, yet might have failed to appreciate that law and health are linked far beyond the scope of medical negligence...Any author committed to analysis of the questions of resource allocation in the NHS sets themself a mammmoth task. Newdick's text is readily comprehensible...Newdick catalogues the issues and demonstrates the urgency of the task and the challenge admirably.'' Medical Law Review

`'The quality of work in this book is impressive. It provides a thoroughly researched exploration of legal structure of the NHS, which provides an essential addition to the literature on health care law.'' Legal Studies

`'The book has a remarkably wide scope...The book is replete with wise statements, always made with the utmost confidence and extensively footnoted...All sides could profit from reading this book, which helps remind us of some of the practical perils of too much attention to the bottom line.'' New England Journal of Medicine

'the breadth of the text is to be praised and the tensions between the law, patients and resources in the NHS are well described. This book can be recommended to anyone interested in dealing with the practical challenges of rationing resources within the NHS.'

About the Author

Christopher Newdick is at University of Reading.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 28, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198259247
• ISBN-13: 978-0198259244
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,612,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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