United Kingdom health law

United Kingdom health law concerns the laws in the United Kingdom concerning health care and medicine, primarily administered through the National Health Service.

History

  • Local board of health
  • UK Medical Act 1876
  • Apothecaries Act 1815
  • Dentists Act 1984
  • Medical Act 1858
  • National Health Service Act 1977
  • Royal Commission on the NHS (1979) Cmnd 7615
  • National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, NHS internal market
  • NHS Plan 2000 more money, and more competition
  • National Health Service Act 2006
  • Regional hospital boards (1947–1974) under the National Health Service Act 1946
  • Regional health authority (UK) (1974-1996), 14 RHA's since the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 plus 90 area health authorities. Also community health councils (1974-2003) with local council, charity appointees were meant to meet the p|ublic
  • NHS Executive (1996-2002) with 8 regional offices.
  • Strategic health authorities, 28 in total, and List of Primary Care Trusts in England (2001-2013). Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health which ran patients' forums (2003-2008) was replaced 151 local involvement networks (2008-2013)
  • Clinical commissioning group under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, originally 211 CCGs, but shrinking with mergers. The Care Quality Commission (2009-today) inspects hospitals, GPs and homes, and appoints the director of Healthwatch England which organises 148 Healthwatch groups.
  • Healthcare in Greater Manchester
  • National Health Service Act 1966 (c 8) s 10 required GP remuneration to be partly linked to the number of patients they saw.
  • National Health Service Act 1977 (c 49)
  • National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c 46)
  • NHS Redress Act 2006

Governance

Medical malpractice

Research

Mental health

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital

Life and death

See also

  • UK enterprise law

References

  • E Jackson, Medical Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (4th edn 2016)
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