A Straightforward Guide to Negligence in Healthcare: A simple guide for Patients, Carers and Practitioners

Cornock, Marc and Nichols, Andy (2024). A Straightforward Guide to Negligence in Healthcare: A simple guide for Patients, Carers and Practitioners. London, UK: Straightforward Publishing.

Abstract

This comprehensive book, Negligence in Healthcare: A simple guide for Patients, Carers and Practitioners discusses how negligence works in practice. It examines the legal duty that a healthcare practitioner has to a patient, as well as what needs to be established for a negligence case to be successful.

This book, which is a follow up to Healthcare Rights and Law for Patients, Carers and Practitioners, will be ideal for those wishing to know more about negligence in healthcare settings, whether a patient, someone caring for a patient, or healthcare practitioners. The following areas are covered in detail:
- What is negligence?

- Alternatives to negligence claims.

- Duty of care owed to patients.

- The standard that practitioners have to meet.

- How negligence claims are accessed.

- Good Samaritan acts.

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