Statutes on Medical Law

by Jones, Michael A.; Morris, Anne E.

• ISBN13: 9780199283156
• ISBN10: 019928315X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-10
• Publisher: Blackstone Press

Summary

This new edition has been fully revised and updated to include all relevant legislation through to June 2005.

Author Biography

Professor Michael Jones is Professor of Common Law at Liverpool Law School
Mrs Anne Jones is Senior Lecturer in law at Liverpool Law School

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface	ix
PART I Statutes	1	(301)
Offences Against the Person Act 1861	1	(1)
Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929	2	(1)
Children and Young Persons Act 1933	2	(1)
National Assistance Act 1948	3	(1)
Suicide Act 1961	4	(1)
Abortion Act 1967	5	(1)
Family Law Reform Act 1969	6	(1)
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971	7	(1)
Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976	8	(2)
Adoption Act 1976	10	(1)
National Health Service Act 1977	11	(25)
Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977	36	(2)
Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979	38	(4)
Sale of Goods Act 1979	42	(1)
Supreme Court Act 1981	43	(2)
Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982	45	(1)
Mental Health Act 1983	45	(72)
Medical Act 1983	117	(14)
Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984	131	(3)
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984	134	(1)
Hospital Complaints Procedure Act 1985	135	(1)
Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985	136	(3)
Aids (Control) Act 1987	139	(1)
Family Law Reform Act 1987	140	(1)
Consumer Protection Act 1987	141	(4)
Access to Medical Reports Act 1988	145	(3)
Health and Medicines Act 1988	148	(1)
Road Traffic Act 1988	149	(2)
Children Act 1989	151	(13)
Access to Health Records Act 1990	164	(4)
National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990	168	(6)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990	174	(28)
Health Service Commissioners Act 1993	202	(10)
Family Law Act 1996	212	(1)
Data Protection Act 1998	213	(20)
Human Rights Act 1998	233	(3)
Health Act 1999	236	(3)
Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001	239	(1)
Health and Social Care Act 2001	240	(2)
National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002	242	(5)
Adoption and Children Act 2002	247	(5)
Female Genital Multilation Act 2003	252	(1)
Health Hand Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003	253	(7)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act 2003	260	(1)
Health Protection Agency Act 2004	260	(1)
Human Tissue Act 2004	261	(25)
Children Act 2004	286	(1)
Mental Capacity Act 2005	287	(15)
PART II Statutory Instruments	302	(103)
National Health Service (Venereal Diseases) Regulations 1974	302	(1)
Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Regulation 1983	302	(3)
Mental Health Review Tribunal Rules 1983	305	(11)
Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988	316	(3)
Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations 1989	319	(1)
Abortion Regulations 1991	319	(6)
Access to Health Records (Control of Access) Regulations 1993	325	(1)
National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) Regulations 1996	325	(2)
National Health Service (Existing Liabilities Scheme) Regulations 1996	327	(1)
National Health Service (Liabilities to Third Parties Scheme) Regulations 1999	328	(2)
The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999	330	(1)
Data Protection (Subject Access Modification) (Health) Order 2000	331	(3)
The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2001	334	(1)
The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002	334	(4)
The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004	338	(27)
The National Health Service (Complaints) Regulations 2004	365	(9)
The National Health Service (Performers Lists) Regulation 2004	374	(15)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulation 2001	389	(1)
The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004	389	(14)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (Disclosure of Donor Information) Regulations 2004	403	(2)
PART III Department of Health Circulars and Guidelines	405	(28)
Health Services Guidelines Arrangements for Clinical Negligence claims in the NHS	405	(8)
Health Service Circular HSC 2000/028: Resuscitation Policy	413	(1)
Health Service Circular HSC 2001/023: Good Practice in Consent	414	(4)
Consent forms	418	(15)
PART IV General Medical Council	433	(54)
Good Medical Practice (Third edition May 2001: under review)	433	(8)
Serious Communicable Diseases (September 1997)	441	(4)
Guidance for Doctors Who Are Asked to Circumcise Male Children (September 1997)	445	(2)
Seeking Patients' Consent: the Ethical Considerations (February 1999)	447	(7)
Intimate Examinations (December 2001)	454	(1)
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Treatments: Good Practice in Decision-Making (August 2002)	455	(13)
Research: The Role and Responsibilities of Doctors (February 2002)	468	(10)
Confidentiality Protecting and Providing Information (April 2004)	478	(9)
PART V Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority	487	(9)
Code of Practice (2004)	487	(1)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Section 13	487	(5)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 Section 12	492	(4)
PART VI International	496	(23)
Declaration of Geneva, 1948	496	(1)
Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine 1997	496	(5)
Additional Protocol on Cloning	501	(1)
Additional Protocol on Transplantation	501	(4)
Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights	505	(7)
World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki	512	(3)
Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament	515	(1)
On Setting Standards of Quality and Safety	515	(4)
Index	519