Maternity Care and Patient Safety in England’s NHS
Failures of maternity care services have presented an acute patient safety issue in some parts of England in 2020.
Informed Consent
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In this video, Valerie Gutmann Koch gives a preview of her paper, “Previvorship and the Legal Doctrine of Informed Consent.”
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Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
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A new hard-hitting report on medicines and medical device safety presents controversial proposals that have the potential to improve NHS patient safety.
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Read more: Racial Disparities Persist in Human Subjects Research Racial Disparities Persist in Human Subjects Research
Human subjects research has long been plagued by racial inequality. While flagrant abuses have been curtailed, disparities have, unfortunately, persisted.
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Read more: Human Subjects Research in Emergencies: The Texas Nursing Home “Study” (Part II) Human Subjects Research in Emergencies: The Texas Nursing Home “Study” (Part II)
Almost immediately, there was a public outcry about the possibility that this was an illegal or unethical “research experiment.”
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Read more: Can Bedside Consent Apps Improve Informed Consent During Childbirth? Can Bedside Consent Apps Improve Informed Consent During Childbirth?
By Alexa Richardson Informed consent in childbirth is under fire by advocates, who stress that there is a widespread absence of meaningful informed consent during birth. While informed consent in medical settings always poses challenges, informed consent in childbirth raises particular concerns. Labor unfolds in real-time, and people are heavily reliant on their provider for…
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Read more: What Google Isn’t Saying About Your Health Records What Google Isn’t Saying About Your Health Records
By Adrian Gropper Google’s semi-secret deal with Ascension is testing the limits of HIPAA as society grapples with the future impact of machine learning and artificial intelligence. I. Glenn Cohen points out that HIPAA may not be keeping up with our methods of consent by patients and society on the ways personal data is used….
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Never Events are defined in the report as serious, largely preventable patient safety incidents that should not occur if healthcare providers have implemented existing national guidance or safety recommendations.
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Read more: An Urgent Need to Improve Mental Health Care in the National Health Service An Urgent Need to Improve Mental Health Care in the National Health Service
Mental Health Care in the National Health Service in England has always existed in the shadow of physical care in terms of funding and NHS-government health policy priorities.
