A Straightforward Guide to Negligence in Healthcare: A simple guide for Patients, Carers and Practitioners - Softcover

Marc Cornock; Andy Nichols

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1802363165 ISBN 13: 9781802363166

Publisher: Straightforward Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

This comprehensive book, Negligence in Healthcare: A simple guide for Patients, Carers and Practitioners discusses how negligence works in practice. It examines the legal duty that a healthcare practitioner has to a patient, as well as what needs to be established for a negligence case to be successful.

This book, which is a follow up to Healthcare Rights and Law for Patients, Carers and Practitioners, will be ideal for those wishing to know more about negligence in healthcare settings, whether a patient, someone caring for a patient, or healthcare practitioners. The following areas are covered in detail:

- What is negligence?

- Alternatives to negligence claims.

- Duty of care owed to patients.

- The standard that practitioners have to meet.

- How negligence claims are accessed.

- Good Samaritan acts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Straightforward Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1802363165
• ISBN 13: 9781802363166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280