The Legal Aspects of Midwifery

Introduction;The Legal System; Section A: Professional Issues; Section B: Client rights; Section C: Litigation and Accountability; Section D: Management Issues; Section E: Statutory provisions and childbirth; Section F: Specific situations; Appendices: Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976; Declaration of Helsinki; Changing Childbirth: Annex 1 Summary of its objectives; Recommendations of the Audit Commission; First Class Delivery: Improving Maternity Services in England and Wales 1997 Stationery Office; 3 and 4 to be replaced by the NSF for maternity and childhealth if this is out pre publication; Glossary; Recommended Further reading; Useful Addresses; Index; Topics to be covered in the second edition: Human Rights Act and its implications; Health Act 1999 and Health and Social Care Act 2001; Implications of Government initiatives for midwifery: NHS Plan; National Institute of Clinical Excellence, Commission for Health Improvement; National Service Frameworks; National Patient Safety Agency; Changes in Civil proceedings; Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts and possible introduction of no-fault liability schemes; Nursing and Midwifery Council replacing the UKCC; Court of Appeal cases of consent to treatment and caesarean sections; Data Protection provisions; Audit Commission on maternity services Complementary therapies and the midwife; Developments in laws on embryology and genetics; Removal, retention and storage of body parts and the consequences of the Alderhey Report;