The Medical Accidents Handbook: A Practical Guide for Patients and Their Advisers Book

ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND PATIENTS' RIGHTS.

Medical Accidents and Risk Management (C. Vincent).

The Organisation of the NHS (C. Hallisey).

Patients' Rights (N. Fletcher).

Private Health Care (R. Ennals & L. Thomas).

COMPLAINTS ABOUT HEALTH CARE.

An Introduction to Complaints within the NHS (S. Polywka).

Complaints About Care by Hospital or Community NHS Trusts (G. Girvan).

Complaints About GPs and Other Family Practitioners (G. Girvan).

Independent Review of NHS Complaints (S. Polywka & G. Girvan).

The Health Service Commissioner (Ombudsman) (R. Oswald).

Complaining to a Practitioner's Professional Body (L. Thomas & K. Miles).

Medical Treatment and the Criminal Law (R. Stewart).

Complaining About Private Health Care (R. Ennals).

The Coroner's Inquest (T. Osborne).

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE AND LEGAL ACTION.

Introduction - Suing for Compensation (A. Simanowitz).

The Law and Medical Negligence (S. Maskrey & P. Sparks).

Understanding the English Legal System (P. Sparks & L. Thomas).

Claiming on Time: The Law of Limitation and Medical Negligence (F. Burton).

Legal Procedures: Preliminary Investigation to Trial (P. McNeil).

Quantum (C. Jenkins).

Fatal Cases (R. Nelson-Jones).

The End of the Case - Preparing for the Future (C. Fazan).

Small Claims Court and Litigants in Person (P. Allen).

The Woolf Inquiry and the Future of Medical Negligence Litigation - 1998 (S. Leigh).

Appendices.

Index.