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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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Policy Press shorts. Research
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Policy Press shorts. Research.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Medical sociology has long been concerned with the role played by specialist forms of expertise in enabling the governance of 'troublesome' social groups - including those who are unwell, 'deviant' and criminally insane. However, only recently has it begun to explore how the state ensures the public is protected from acts of medical malpractice, negligence and criminality. Against the background of a series of high-profile scandals, including the case of Dr Harold Shipman who murdered over 200 of his patients, this topical and authoritative book examines how the regulation of doctors has been modernised by reforms to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service and the introduction of the quality assurance process of medical revalidation. In doing so, it questions whether there is evidence to support the argument that revalidation serves the public interest by ensuring that individual doctors are fit to practise. Highlighting areas of good practice and areas for further research and development, the book is ideal for academics and postgraduates interested in medical sociology, socio-legal studies, medical law, medical education, health policy and related subjects. |
| Contents |
MEDICAL REGULATION, FITNESS TO PRACTISE AND REVALIDATION -- Contents -- List of tables -- About the author -- 1. Governing medicine: from gentlemen's club to risk-based regulation -- Introduction -- Overview of the book -- Regulating medicine: the Medical Act 1858 -- Bristol, Shipman and the Health and Social Care Act 2008 -- Medical expertise and professional discretion -- The 'Bolam test' and the 'Bolitho gloss' -- The shift to risk-based regulation -- Risk-based regulation, professional discretion and medical game-playing -- Medical revalidation and the risks of risk-based regulation -- Conclusion -- 2. Fitness to practise in the workplace: medical revalidation -- Introduction -- Challenging medicine: the rise of hospital management and the patient revolt -- The central issue of continuing medical education -- Introducing doctor appraisal -- Medicine's new professionalism and the beginnings of medical revalidation -- Bristol and Shipman: all changed, changed utterly -- A culture of medical protectionism? -- The Health and Social Care Act 2008 and medical revalidation -- Responsible officers: implementing revalidation at a local level -- Medical revalidation: a Foucauldian interpretation -- Appraising performance appraisal in medicine -- Revalidation: a ritual of employment? -- Conclusion: appraising the system -- 3. Fitness to practise panels: the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service -- Introduction -- Handling complaints and hearing fitness to practise cases -- Trends in the GMC investigatory and adjudication procedures -- Next steps: the MPTS, FPPs and the Law Commission Review -- Conclusion -- 4. Regulating for the safer doctor in the risk society: is the process the punishment? -- Introduction -- The rise of the risk society -- Governing medicine in the risk society -- Doctors, patients and the media. |
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Defensive medicine: is the process becoming the punishment? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Good Medical Practice Framework for Appraisal and Revalidation -- Domain 1 -- Knowledge, skills and performance -- Domain 2 -- Safety and quality -- Domain 3 -- Communication, partnership and teamwork -- Domain 4 -- Maintaining trust -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain.
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Medical laws and legislation. |
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Great Britain. |
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Physicians -- Great Britain -- Discipline.
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Physicians. |
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. |
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Discipline. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. |
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Physicians -- Discipline. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chamberlain, John Martyn. Medical regulation, fitness to practise and revalidation. Bristol : Policy Press, 2015 1447325443 9781447325444 (OCoLC)905524416 |
| ISBN |
9781447325451 (electronic book) |
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1447325451 (electronic book) |
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9781447325543 (electronic book) |
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1447325540 (electronic book) |
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9781447325468 |
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144732546X |
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9781447325475 |
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1447325478 |
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1447325443 |
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9781447325444 |
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