Healthcare Law: Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 (Paperback)

With the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in October 2000 English law has for the first time a full positive system of legal rights. The difficulty is not so much that the Act will change healthcare law but the uncertainty of how it will do so. This book provides an insight into the operation of the Act and the Convention both in general terms and in respect to key areas including: use of healthcare resources and the right to treatment; procedure, professional discipline and complaints; the issue of autonomy and its relationship with dignity under both the Act and the Convention; rights in relation to minors, vulnerable adults and mental health; access to medical records and confidentiality; issues at the beginning of life and its ending; and finally, transplantation and biotechnology.