Health Care Law

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;

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.

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

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.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External