Table of Contents: Legal Aspects of Medicine
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Abbreviations
Table of useful web sites
Table of cases, statutes and regulations
The statutory framework for medicines
Controlled drugs
Control mechanisms
The British National Formulary and other sources
Administration of medicines
Prescriptions: basic principles
Patient Group Directions
Nurse prescribing
Midwives and medicines
Consent by the mentally capacitated patient
Giving information to the patient
Consent and the mentally incapacitated patient
Consent to medicines and children
Consent and the mentally disordered detained patient
The older person
Self-administration of medicines
Accountability and medicines: Criminal law
Accountability and medicines: Civil law
Accountability and medicines: Employment
Accountability and medicines: Professional
Storage, destruction of drugs and management of pharmaceutical services
Homoeopathy and herbal medicines
Documentation and confidentiality
Research and medicines
The right to obtain medicinal products
Illegal use of drugs
Pharmacists in the community
Private hospitals and care homes
Further reading
Index