Whistleblowing in the Health Service : accountability, law and professional practice

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    • Hunt, Geoffrey

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Whistleblowing in the Health Service : accountability, law and professional practice

edited by Geoffrey Hunt

Arnold, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Accountability has become a key issue in the provision of health care, with legal, ethical and moral considerations gaining greater prominence than ever before. This book identifies aspects of accountability in health care provision, adopting a provocative question-answer approach to issues such as whistle blowing, disciplinary procedures, interprofessional relations, secrecy, confidentiality, and the adequacy of statutory bodies and current British law. The issues are considered from a variety of view points to give the text a broad appeal.

Table of Contents

  • Whistleblowing and the breakdown of accountability. Part I the actors: the whistleblowers speak
  • managerial accountability
  • medical accountability
  • nursing accountability
  • community representation
  • explaining abuse and inadequate care. Part II the working place and the law: self-regulation through employee vigilance
  • freedom of information
  • whistleblowing in American health care
  • two initiatives to reform accountability
  • confidentiality and the public interest
  • conclusion - a new accountability?

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