Regulating Patient Safety: The End of Professional Dominance?

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Systematically improving patient safety is of the utmost importance, but it is also an extremely complex and challenging task. This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety, arguing that the 'medical dominance' model is ill-suited to this aim, which instead requires a patient-centred vision of professionalism. It brings together literatures on professions, regulation and trust, while examining the different legal mechanisms for responding to patient safety events. Oliver Quick includes an examination in areas of law which have received little attention in this context, such as health and safety law, and coronial law, and contends in particular that the active involvement of patients in their own treatment is fundamental to ensuring their safety. Cover ......Page 1 Half-title page......Page 3 Series page......Page 4 Title page......Page 5 Copyright page......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Introduction......Page 9 1 The Rise and Fall of Professional Dominance......Page 17 2 The Problem of Patient Safety......Page 37 3 Regulation and Trust......Page 57 4 Professional Regulation and Patient Safety......Page 76 5 Complaining and Claiming......Page 96 6 The Criminalisation of Medical Harm......Page 116 7 Coronial Investigations and Inquests......Page 136 8 Professional Responsibility: Speaking Up and Saying Sorry......Page 152 9 Patients, Carers and Safety......Page 171 Conclusion......Page 186 Bibliography......Page 194 Index......Page 219