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LAW IN OPTOMETRIC PRACTICE
Law in Optometric Practice
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By
Stephen Taylor, BSc, MSc, PhD, FBCO, FAAO, Vision Consultant, Private Practice, Dorset, UK

Description
* This book is the first of its kind and provides optometry students and practitioners with all the background information that they need on practising within a legal framework * Clear and contemporary its straightforward no-nonsense approach helps to demystify the subject * Taking into account new legislation and recent lively ethical debates, the book provides a comprehensive, synoptic and very practical text that will provide all the information required * It includes recent healthcare reforms, medical devices and the latest information concerning primary care groups, co-management schemes, industrial eye protection, therapeutics and ethics

Audience
Optometrists and dispensing opticians in training and in practice

Contents
Introduction to the UK legal system; The National Health Service; NHS terms of service; NHS GOS regulations; Complaints and NHS tribunals; The Opticians Act; The General Optical Council; OSAC and the GOC; GOC disciplinary procedures; Referral and case records; Law relating to the use of drugs; Professional ethics and professional discipline; Standards of vision; Industrial eye protection and consumer protection; The negligent professional; The need for insurance; European optometry; Computers and the Data Protection Act; General law and optometry

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 176 pages, publication date: JAN-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4578-2
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4578-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN


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