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Medical self-regulation : Crisis and change - Boston Ashgate 2007 - 418p xiii

Contents:
Preface;
Part 1 Crisis: The background to medical self-regulation: The General Medical Council - powers and failings;
Criminal convictions and the General Medical Council;
Doctors’ attitudes to self-regulation; Trust and the medical profession;
The NHS complaints and disciplinary processes.
Part 2 Cases: The Bristol Royal Infirmary;
Rodney Ledward;
William Kerr and Michael Haslam;
Clifford Ayling;
Richard Neale;
Harold Shipman.
Part 3 Change: Whistleblowing; Lay participation in the regulatory process; Self-regulation in a 'no fault' culture;Crisis and change; Revalidation - the GMC's big idea;
Conclusions and future directions;
Bibliography;
Index.

ISBN: 9781138257191

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Medical Law - Law & Legislations - U K 2. Physicians - Licenses - U K

Dewey Class. No.: 344.041000 / DAV