Module overview
The Health Care Law module provides a foundational understanding of the relationships between health care, ethics, and law. It explores a range of complex and controversial questions, with a focus on fundamental legal and regulatory ideas, applied to specific areas of health care practice and policy.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically appraise the law to promote health and secure healthcare, using appropriately selected specific examples to justify your assessment;
- consider the relative merits of legal and other mechanisms for regulating health care;
- examine the relationship between law, ethics and politics in the context of health care.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- clarify, inform and defend your views on selected issues in health care law and ethics;
- communicate your views orally, as part of a group, and in writing.
- examine and assess specific aspects of health care law in response to questions posed orally or in writing;
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the socio-political emphasis behind the regulation of health care provision.
- the interaction between patients and the health care system;
Syllabus
This module adopts a flexible approach to the regulation of health care that takes into account the learning needs of students and topical issues as they arise within the context of health care law. It explores key areas of health care law and bioethics relating to issues like, end of life decision-making, consent to treatment and confidentiality, amongst others. It also considers the impact of litigation on health services, patient choice, clinical freedom and judicial oversight within the boundaries of established theories of health care law.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching Methods include:
- Lectures
- Tutorials
- Group work
Learning Activities include:
- Individual study and research
- Accessing online resources and health care law literature
- Preparing and participating in tutorial activities
Type | Hours |
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Follow-up work | 5 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 70 |
Completion of assessment task | 35 |
Tutorial | 8 |
Lecture | 20 |
Wider reading or practice | 12 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Jackson, E (2013). Medical Law Text and Materials. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Brazier, M & Cave, E (2011). Medicine, Patients and the Law. Penguin.
Montgomery, J (2002). Health Care Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mason, J K & Laurie, G T (2013). Law and Medical Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Essay Group presentationSummative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External