United Kingdom health law concerns the laws in the United Kingdom concerning health care and medicine, primarily administered through the National Health Service.
History
Main articles: History of the National Health Service (England) and History of medical regulation in the United Kingdom- Local board of health
- UK Medical Act 1876
- Apothecaries Act 1815
- Dentists Act 1984
- Medical Act 1858
- National Health Service Act 1977
- Royal Commission on the NHS (1979) Cmnd 7615
- National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, NHS internal market
- NHS Plan 2000 more money, and more competition
- National Health Service Act 2006
- Regional hospital boards (1947–1974) under the National Health Service Act 1946
- Regional health authority (UK) (1974-1996), 14 RHA's since the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 plus 90 area health authorities. Also community health councils (1974-2003) with local council, charity appointees were meant to meet the public
- NHS Executive (1996-2002) with 8 regional offices.
- Strategic health authorities, 28 in total, and List of Primary Care Trusts in England (2001-2013). Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health which ran patients' forums (2003-2008) was replaced 151 local involvement networks (2008-2013)
- Clinical commissioning group under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, originally 211 CCGs, but shrinking with mergers. The Care Quality Commission (2009-today) inspects hospitals, GPs and homes, and appoints the director of Healthwatch England which organises 148 Healthwatch groups.
- Healthcare in Greater Manchester
- National Health Service Act 1966 (c 8) s 10 required GP remuneration to be partly linked to the number of patients they saw.
- National Health Service Act 1977 (c 49)
- National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c 46)
- NHS Redress Act 2006
Governance
See also: UK enterprise lawMedical malpractice
See also: English tort lawConsent and privacy
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Research
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
- Human Genetics Commission
- Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001
Mental health
Life and death
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See also
References
- E Jackson, Medical Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (4th edn 2016)
- E McGaughey, Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (Cambridge UP 2022) ch 9