Medical Law Events 
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Masterclass: informed consent
Treatment without informed consent can resound in the civil courts, criminal courts and disciplinary hearings. Health professionals at all levels need to have a practical working knowledge of the law of best practice systems to protect themselves, and to ensure high quality care, including the use of protocols.
Informed consent is an integral part of clinical governance that cannot be ignored.
This one day interactive masterclass held jointly be Healthcare Conferences UK and InPractice and led by Kate Hill who is practising healthcare lawyer, will take delegates through case studies and practical exercises to provide usefu...
Source: MEDEV Events - March 31, 2012 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
Deprivation of liberty masterclass
The Deprivation of Liberty safeguards came into force in April 2009.
This Master Class will explore the rationale behind the measures and examine the practical implications for health care professionals. There will be a detailed analysis of what constitutes deprivation of liberty rather than restriction of liberty.
Delegates will have the opportunity to raise issues and concerns specific to their own practice. The course will be run by Kate Hill, a Mental Health care lawyer, and will be case study led.
Our conferences offer Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) certificates and ac...
Source: MEDEV Events - September 22, 2011 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
JISC's digital content conference 2009
Researchers, librarians, publishers and policy makers will be gathering in Gloucestershire on June 30th and July 1st to discuss the issues they face in creating, delivering and sustaining digitised content.
As JISC's digitisation programme enters a new phase of enhancing previously unseen and difficult to access materials, experts from across libraries, museums and the private sector will meet to look into future opportunities and challenges at this year's Digital Content Conference.
With over 17 trusted, high-quality collections already available due to JISC funding, and another 25 projects busy digitising new content f...
Source: MEDEV Events - June 25, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
International conference on human rights and biomedicine
Since 1997, the member states of the Council of Europe started the process of ratification of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Biomedicine Convention) committing them to make their laws compatible with the principles and requirements of this document.
The Biomedicine Convention is the first international document formulating guiding principles on: equitable access to healthcare; informed consent; organ transplanting and the use of substances of human origin; medical research on human beings; the protection of the human embryo and fetus, and the use of medical information.
Since the Dutch government is e...
Source: MEDEV Events - December 1, 2008 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
Legal, ethical and clinical issues in dentistry donference
The event is organised by the patients' safety charity AvMA (Action Against Medical Accidents) and run in association with the GDC.
The conference will examine the impact of recent reforms on dentists and patients. It will also tackle the medico-legal issues facing dentistry and examine how to improve patient safety and learn from mistakes to ensure a safer workplace.
The conference has been designed for the whole dental team, as well as those concerned with clinical governance, risk management, patient safety and complaint management in dentistry, both in the NHS and private practice. Lawyers who have been involved in d...
Source: MEDEV Events - September 26, 2008 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
Children affected by substance misuse: Optimising their future
Recent research into the area of children affected by birth mother's use of drugs and alcohol has shown that this is a serious and increasing contemporary problem. A recent BBC documentary found that there are no reliable figures of the number of children affected, but experts estimate that there are about 7,000 children living in the UK, who were born with lifelong incurable problems caused by their mother's drinking during pregnancy. Mothers' drug-taking too, is a factor in a significant proportion of care proceedings, often leading to the permanent removal of those children from their birth family. A number of these chi...
Source: MEDEV Events - September 10, 2008 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
The cycle of drugs and alcohol: A new perspective
Consequences for children affected by maternal drug & alcohol usage: A multi disciplinary approach - Conference three
Recent research into the area of children affected by birth mother's use of drugs and alcohol has shown that this is a serious and increasing contemporary problem. A recent BBC documentary found that there are no reliable figures of the number of children affected, but experts estimate that there are about 7,000 children living in the UK, who were born with lifelong incurable problems caused by their mother's drinking during pregnancy. Mothers' drug-taking too, is a factor in a significant proportion o...
Source: MEDEV Events - September 10, 2008 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
Drugs and the unborn baby
Recent research into the area of children affected by birth mother's use of drugs and alcohol has shown that this is a
serious and increasing contemporary problem. A recent BBC documentary found that there are no reliable figures of
the number of children affected, but experts estimate that there are about 7,000 children living in the UK, who were
born with lifelong incurable problems caused by their mother's drinking during pregnancy. Mothers' drug-taking
too, is a factor in a significant proportion of care proceedings, often leading to the permanent removal of those
children from their birth family. A number of these chi...
Source: MEDEV Events - September 8, 2008 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
BIinge Britain: Significant harm for the unborn child
Consequences for children affected by maternal drug and alcohol usage: A multi disciplinary approach
Recent research into the area of children affected by birth mother's use of drugs and alcohol has shown that this is a
serious and increasing contemporary problem. A recent BBC documentary found that there are no reliable figures of
the number of children affected, but experts estimate that there are about 7,000 children living in the UK, who were
born with lifelong incurable problems caused by their mother's drinking during pregnancy. Mothers' drug-taking
too, is a factor in a significant proportion of care proceedings, o...
Source: MEDEV Events - August 6, 2008 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
Physician assisted suicide: A good death?
* Some of the most poignant stories in the media are from people with terminal illness who do not want to continue living and appeal for help to those whose vocation is to save life. How do health professionals cope with this dilemma? In some countries, it is legal for doctors to assist a person to commit suicide and there are calls for the law to be changed in the UK. How do we hold together the difficult knowledge we have about life-threatening disease, the better understanding we have about palliative care, our hesitancy in speaking about death and a Äòrights cultureÄô where people want to be in control of their...
Source: MEDEV Events - September 24, 2007 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
Book and journal publishing contracts
This course will guide non-lawyer delegates through the complexities of publishing contracts. (Source: MEDEV Events)
Source: MEDEV Events - September 24, 2007 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: events
