Rights and Responsibilities of Doctors

Patients and doctors: rights and responsibilities in the NHS.

Our society is very concerned with endowing and protecting people's rights and the existence of a National Health Service in this country has allowed such concepts to be applied to medical care. It is not clear, however, whether the concept of rights helps either doctors or patients, and it may in fact be misleading or even damaging. A discussion of the suitability of rights ethics to the healt...

Data Rights and Responsibilities

A human-rights-based analysis can be a useful tool for the scientific community and policy makers as they develop codes of conduct, harmonized standards, and national policies for data sharing. The human rights framework provides a shared set of values and norms across borders, defines rights and responsibilities of various actors involved in data sharing, addresses the potential harms as well ...

Responsibilities of doctors in management and governance.

11. If, while serving as a board member, you believe that a decision made by the Board will put patients at risk of serious harm, you must make your objections known. You must adhere to internal procedures for reporting information about serious wrongdoing. If this does not result in a satisfactory outcome within reasonable time you have the option of raising the matter with the Director Genera...

Patients' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.

Rights , Responsibilities and Regulation of International Business

Over the past decade or so there has been an intriguing dual movement in the development of forms of regulation of business in the global economy. Since the 1980s the dominant trend has been liberalization, the relaxation or removal of national controls on international capital movements. It seemed to many that business firms and investors were close to attaining the goal of a free world market...