Patient safety is a major challenge for the acute care sector. This chapter considers recent public policy initiatives designed to enhance safety such as the NRLS, PALS, clinical governance, and risk management strategies ...

Purpose The modern social and political order is characterised by a range of disparate moralities which lead to a plethora of interpretations and competing perspectives as to what ought to be the appropriate ethical ...

The principle of proportionality is at the cornerstone of EU law, and precisely of the case-law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). In the law and economics literature, the general principles of law are commonly opposed ...