Postgraduate Course: Shaping and Regulating Modern Healthcare (LAWS11488)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course provides students with an opportunity to explore some of the ways that modern healthcare and its regulation have been (and are being) shaped by key events. In particular, it considers how high profiles failures of care have impacted on law, policy and regulation in the sector, and how this continues to evolve. This course will contextualise and deepen students' understanding of the changing landscape of healthcare, as well as providing an understanding of the principal legal and policy frameworks that govern the regulation of health and social care professionals in the UK. The course will equip students to navigate a range of primary and secondary sources in order to advance arguments and positions at this intersection of law, policy and regulation. While this course focuses on the UK as its primary jurisdiction, it also provides scope for students to reflect on the issues raised in relation to their home jurisdictions (if different). |
| Course description |
1. The changing healthcare and regulatory landscape: an introduction
2. Failures of care I: drivers of change?
3. Failures of care II: drivers of change?
4. Fitness to practice: clinical cases
5. Fitness to practice: dishonesty and sexual misconduct
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical understanding of some of the ways that modern healthcare has been (and is being) shaped by key events, and the principal legal and policy frameworks that govern the regulation of health and social care professionals in the UK.
- Identify, analyse and argue current and future matters of law, policy and regulation in the sector.
- Deal with complex issues, and advance informed arguments, in the context of the changing healthcare landscape, with a focus on how these have impacted (and continue to impact) on law, policy and regulation in the sector.
- Communicate ideas, arguments and positions, appropriately and effectively, as supported by reference to law, policy and other robust sources, in order to engage with a range of stakeholders in the healthcare endeavour.
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Reading List
There will be no single set text for this course. Core texts will include:
Codes of Conduct (publicly available online)
Policy documents (publicly available online)
Decisions of the fitness to practise tribunals (publicly available online)
Appeals to the High Court / Court of Session (available via Westlaw)
Journal articles (available via DiscoverEd)
Various book chapters
These are already available on Resource Lists in respect of the online delivery of this material via existing courses that are offered as part of the online LLM Medical Law and Ethics.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Gerard Porter
Tel: (0131 6)50 2023
Email: Gerard.Porter@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Clare Polson
Tel: (0131 6)51 9704
Email: Clare.Polson@ed.ac.uk |
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