Second edition
by Bridgit Dimond
Legal Aspects of Physiotherapy provides an essential reference for physiotherapists, covering both conventional and specialist legal situations in reader-friendly terms.
Legal Aspects of Physiotherapy contains brand new clinical case studies that guide the reader informatively through a cornucopia of legal issues that may arise in the practice of physiotherapy.
This latest edition contains important information on each of the many and extensive changes in practice law, the NHS and professional regulation to have occurred in the last decade.
Contents
Professional Issues
- Registration and the Role of the Statutory Bodies
- Professional Conduct Proceedings
- Education and the Physiotherapist
Client-Centered Care
- Rights of Clients
- Consent and Information Giving
- Confidentiality
- Access to Records and Information
Accountability in the Civil and Criminal Courts
- Negligence
- Health and Safety
- Record Keeping
- Giving Evidence in Court
- Handling Complaints
- Equipment and Medicinal Products
- Transport Issues
Management Areas
- Employment and the Statutory Organisation of the NHS
- Community Care
- The Physiotherapist as a Private Practitioner
Specialist Client Groups
- Care of Those with Physical Disabilities, Sports and Road Traffic Injuries and Neurological Disorders
- Care of the Mentally Ill
- Care of Those with Learning Disabilities
- Care of Babies, Children and Young Persons
- Care of the Older Person
- Death and the Dying
Specialist Topics
- Teaching and Research
- Complementary Medicine
Index
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