Who Should We Treat?

Christopher Newdick is a Barrister and the Reader in Health Law at the University of Reading. He is also an honorary consultant to Reading Primary Care Trust, and a member of the Berkshire Priorities Committee.

• 1. Problems of Health Care Resources ; 2. Principles of Resource Allocation ; 3. Managing the Resource Allocation Process in the NHS ; 4. Organization of the NHS ; 5. Statutory Regulation of NHS Resource Allocation ; 6. Medical Negligence ; 7. Negligence of NHS Institutions ; 8. Accountability and NHS Governance ; 9. Private and Non-NHS Providers in the NHS ; 10. Trusting the NHS

Review from previous edition Where the book succeeds is in its treatment of the legal issues...It deals systematically with the place of both common law and statute in decisions as to who will or will not have access to care. The account of this complex body of law is clear and informative.