This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
There is no statutory definition of death (Grubb et al, 2010). Generally, the Triad of Bichat (Griffith and Tengnah, 2008), which defines death as ‘the failure of the body as an integrated system...
The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 gives health protection powers to local authorities, which can be used without approval from a court. They also give powers to magistrates to make...
Negligence is a civil wrong or tort and is best defined as actionable harm (Bolam v Friern HMC [1957]). Negligence has developed in English law under the common law by judges setting rules through...
The revised provisions will provide for an administrative system that will be able to authorise the deprivation of liberty of a cared-for person in any care setting, not just hospitals and care homes...
‘An assault on any individual or citizen in our society is a terrible thing, but an assault on an emergency worker is an assault on us all. These people are our constituted representatives. They...
The EU recognises that some patients' clinical need for medicines cannot be met by the current range of licensed medicines, or that it is simply not commercially viable for a pharmaceutical company to...
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