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BOOK REVIEW
NHS LAW AND PRACTICE
2nd edition
By David Lock KC, Leon Glenister and Hannah Gibbs
ISBN: 978 1 91364 859 6
LEGAL ACTION GROUP
lag.org.uk
ANOTHER COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK FROM LAG COVERING ONE OF THE BIGGEST AREAS OF MODERN LAW: THE NHS AND ITS BUDGET
An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers
and Reviews Editor, “The Barrister”
The National Health Service (NHS) is the most important public service provided by the state today in the United Kingdom. For lawyers, the complex structures and organisation of the NHS can make it one of the most difficult public services to understand. So, we welcome this new edition of “NHS: Law and Practice” by David Lock KC, Leon Glenister and Hannah Gibbs which explains the law so well.
The Legal Action Group (LAG) is the access to justice charity. They are justly famed for producing legal texts accessible not only to lawyers, but to the concerned reader, and to practitioners, old and new to the English legal system.
There is no single public body called the ‘National Health Service’ and no single legal regime that governs how NHS bodies should operate. What we have is an NHS which is made up of a complex network of public bodies that operate as commissioners of NHS services who contract with NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, private businesses and charities that all provide medical, dental and other services to NHS patients.
What is called the NHS ‘managed market’ is overseen by both economic and care quality regulators. The rules under which commissioners, providers and regulators operate are both inaccessible and of such complexity that they can be impenetrable for even the most specialist lawyers.
This new second edition describes the large and complex legal structures of the modern NHS. Lock, Glenister and Gibbs explain the legal relationships between NHS commissioners and primary care, community and acute providers of NHS services, as well as explaining the structure of NHS regulation.
LAG offers us detailed guidance to the enforcement of patients’ legal rights around NHS Continuing Healthcare, patient choice, and it examines the rules around NHS personal budgets which remains a mystery to many!
Edited and written by this specialist team of lawyers whose involvement with NHS law and many of the leading cases over decades has given them unrivalled expertise in NHS and healthcare law.
This book will be an essential text for anyone who needs to understand how the legal structures of the NHS currently operate and how they should operate for, as Lors Sales says, “the NHS can truly be said to be the centre of national life!” so do add it to your law library.
The second edition of this paperback book was published in 2023.
BOOK REVIEW
NHS LAW AND PRACTICE
2nd edition
By David Lock KC, Leon Glenister and Hannah Gibbs
ISBN: 978 1 91364 859 6
LEGAL ACTION GROUP
lag.org.uk
ANOTHER COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK FROM LAG COVERING ONE OF THE BIGGEST AREAS OF MODERN LAW: THE NHS AND ITS BUDGET
An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers
and Reviews Editor, “The Barrister”
The National Health Service (NHS) is the most important public service provided by the state today in the United Kingdom. For lawyers, the complex structures and organisation of the NHS can make it one of the most difficult public services to understand. So, we welcome this new edition of “NHS: Law and Practice” by David Lock KC, Leon Glenister and Hannah Gibbs which explains the law so well.
The Legal Action Group (LAG) is the access to justice charity. They are justly famed for producing legal texts accessible not only to lawyers, but to the concerned reader, and to practitioners, old and new to the English legal system.
There is no single public body called the ‘National Health Service’ and no single legal regime that governs how NHS bodies should operate. What we have is an NHS which is made up of a complex network of public bodies that operate as commissioners of NHS services who contract with NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, private businesses and charities that all provide medical, dental and other services to NHS patients.
What is called the NHS ‘managed market’ is overseen by both economic and care quality regulators. The rules under which commissioners, providers and regulators operate are both inaccessible and of such complexity that they can be impenetrable for even the most specialist lawyers.
This new second edition describes the large and complex legal structures of the modern NHS. Lock, Glenister and Gibbs explain the legal relationships between NHS commissioners and primary care, community and acute providers of NHS services, as well as explaining the structure of NHS regulation.
LAG offers us detailed guidance to the enforcement of patients’ legal rights around NHS Continuing Healthcare, patient choice, and it examines the rules around NHS personal budgets which remains a mystery to many!
Edited and written by this specialist team of lawyers whose involvement with NHS law and many of the leading cases over decades has given them unrivalled expertise in NHS and healthcare law.
This book will be an essential text for anyone who needs to understand how the legal structures of the NHS currently operate and how they should operate for, as Lors Sales says, “the NHS can truly be said to be the centre of national life!” so do add it to your law library.
The second edition of this paperback book was published in 2023.
