United Kingdom health law explained

United Kingdom health law concerns the laws in the United Kingdom concerning health care and medicine, primarily administered through the National Health Service.

History

See main article: History of the National Health Service (England) and History of medical regulation in the United Kingdom.

• Local board of health
• UK Medical Act 1876
• Apothecaries Act 1815
• Dentists Act 1984
• Medical Act 1858
• National Health Service Act 1977
• Royal Commission on the NHS (1979) Cmnd 7615
• National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, NHS internal market
• NHS Plan 2000 more money, and more competition
• National Health Service Act 2006
• Regional hospital boards (1947–1974) under the National Health Service Act 1946
• Regional health authority (UK) (1974-1996), 14 RHA's since the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 plus 90 area health authorities. Also community health councils (1974-2003) with local council, charity appointees were meant to meet the public
• NHS Executive (1996-2002) with 8 regional offices.
• Strategic health authorities, 28 in total, and List of Primary Care Trusts in England (2001-2013). Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health which ran patients' forums (2003-2008) was replaced 151 local involvement networks (2008-2013)
• Clinical commissioning group under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, originally 211 CCGs, but shrinking with mergers. The Care Quality Commission (2009-today) inspects hospitals, GPs and homes, and appoints the director of Healthwatch England which organises 148 Healthwatch groups.
• Healthcare in Greater Manchester
• National Health Service Act 1966 (c 8) s 10 required GP remuneration to be partly linked to the number of patients they saw.
• National Health Service Act 1977 (c 49)
• National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c 46)
• NHS Redress Act 2006

Governance

See also: UK enterprise law.

Medical malpractice

See also: English tort law.

Research

• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
• Human Genetics Commission
• Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001

Mental health

• Bethlem Royal Hospital

See also

• UK enterprise law

References

• E Jackson, Medical Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (4th edn 2016)
• E McGaughey, Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (Cambridge UP 2022) ch 9