A Straightforward Guide to Negligence in Healthcare - Marc Cornock - Bog

This Straightforward This comprehensive book, Negligence in Healthcare: A simple guide for Patients, Carers and Practitioners discusses how negligence works in practice. It examines the legal duty that a healthcare practitioner has to a patient, as well as what needs to be established for a negligence case to be successful. This book, which is a follow up to Healthcare Rights and Law for Patients, Carers and Practitioners, will be ideal for those wishing to know more about negligence in healthcare settings, whether a patient, someone caring for a patient, or healthcare practitioners. The following areas are covered in detail: what is negligence?, alternatives to negligence claims, duty of care owed to patients, the standard that practitioners have to meet, how negligence claims are accessed, good samaritan acts.