Healthcare Law and Ethics and the Challenges of Public Policy Making

Sir Ian Kennedy is Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at University College London, UK.

PART I
CHILDREN
1. Caring about Children – Who Cares?
2. Getting it Right for Children and Young People: Overcoming Cultural Barriers in the NHS So as to Meet Their Needs

PART II
REGULATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
3. CHAI – Making it Better
4. The Healthcare Commission’s Blueprint for Regulation
5. The Safety of Healthcare: The Role of Regulation
6. Value for Money – Who Says? The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority – A Case Study

PART III
MEDICAL LAW AND ETHICS: FROM HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE TO COVID-19
7. Huntington’s Disease and Confidentiality
8. Reflections on Charlie Gard
9. Doing What’s Best – Who Says?
10. Ethical Issues in Transplantation
11. A Collection of Children’s Hearts
12. Safety and Blame: Learning from Mistakes in the NHS
13. Deprivation of Liberty and Medical Care
14. Rights and Values in Health and Healthcare
15. Sumption’s Gambit – Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death

PART IV
INQUIRIES AND REVIEWS
16. Public Inquiries: Experience from the Bristol Public Inquiry
17. The Paterson Review
18. Inquiries in the NHS: What’s the Point?
19. Appraising the Value of Innovation: A Review for NICE
20. Research at Porton Down: An Ethical Assessment

PART V
A PUBLIC FIGURE
21. Meet the Press
22. Working with the Media: A View from the Frontline

PART VI
TRIBUTES
23. Professor Aidan Halligan
24. Sir Donald Irvine
25. Sir Eric Scowen