Rights and Responsibilities of Doctors

Doctors have rights and responsibilities and duties and powers which require them to do or not to do certain things in certain circum-stances. Doctors' actions, as well as being governed by their professional code, are also regulated by a variety of legislation with which they must comply. Examples include the various Public Health Acts, the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, the Data Protection Act, the Access to Health Records Act, and so on. As well as United Kingdom legislation, doctors are increasingly being affected by laws emanating from the European Community.
Rights and Responsibilities provides a practical guide to the law as it affects doctors. It aims to cover the main areas that are of interest and concern to most doctors. Designed as a handbook, the style affords easy access to individual topics and offers succinct but comprehensive advice. As well as doctors, medical students, health service administrators, lawyers with an interest in medical law, local authority officers, and others with an interest in the legal aspects of medicine will find this book invaluable.