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

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.

• | Author: Andy Nichols, Marc Cornock
• | Publisher: Straightforward Publishing
• | Publication Date: May 25, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781802363166
• | ISBN-10: 1802363165