Postgraduate Course: Shaping and Regulating Modern Healthcare (LAWS11471)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
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. |
| Course description |
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).
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 32 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
88 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Summative Assessment Information:
A summative assessment of 2000 words will be submitted as 100% of the final course mark. |
| Feedback |
Feedback on the formative assessment may be provided in various formats, for example, to include written, oral, video, face-to-face, whole class, or individual. The course organiser will decide which format is most appropriate in relation to the nature of the assessment.
A formative exercise of 500 words will be handed in and marked prior to submission of the summative assessment.
Feedback on both formative and summative in-course assessed work will be provided in time to be of use in subsequent assessments within the course.
Feedback on the summative assessment will be provided in written form via Learn, the University of Edinburgh's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). |
| No Exam Information |
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 (publically available online)
- Policy documents (publically available online)
- Decisions of the fitness to practise tribunals (publically available online)
- Appeals to the High Court / Court of Session (available via Westlaw)
- Journal articles and book chapters (available via DiscoverEd)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Knowledge and Understanding:
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.
Skills and Abilities in Research and Enquiry:
Identify, analyse and argue current and future matters of law, policy and regulation in the sector.
Skills and Abilities in Personal and Intellectual Autonomy:
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.
Skills and Abilities in Communication:
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. |
| Keywords | Law,LLM,Medical Law and Ethics,Level 11,Postgraduate,Healthcare,Medical Law |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Annie Sorbie
Tel: (0131 6)50 3633
Email: Annie.Sorbie@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Hannah Ackroyd
Tel: (0131 6)50 2008
Email: hackroyd@ed.ac.uk |
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