Legal Aspect of Medical Care :: Hospiad

Apart from his routine and usual “clinical” cases, a doctor will come across certain ‘Medico-legal’ problems at one time or the other during the practice of his profession. Every doctor under law bound by a contract to serve its patient and cannot refuse treatment. Every doctor has to fulfill certain legal requirements in service by compulsion or voluntarily as defined under law.

A good working knowledge of the law in this regard, coupled with a thorough understanding of the correct method of dealing with legal aspects helps one to build confidence over riding the fear of LAW

The Legal aspects of medical practice broadly covers two areas of medical laws:

1. Medical Jurisprudence : It deals with legal aspects of medical practice.
2. Forensic Medicine : It deals with medical aspects of law.

SOURCES OF LAWS:

• PRIMARY SOURCES
• Laws passed by the Parliament or the State Legislative
• Ordinances passed by the President and the Governor
• Subordinate legislation: Rules and regulations made by the executive through the power delegated to them by the Acts.
• SECONDARY SOURCES:
• Judgments of the Supreme Court, High Court and Tribunals (The ratio decedendi is a binding precedent)
• Judicial legislation
• Judgment of Foreign Courts
• International Treaty

The objective of this presentation is to make you aware of issues which are generally confronted during medical practice.

Hope this learning will help you in day to day practice as a hospital administrator

Welcome to New Year 2012

Hi!!,

Coming back after two months, in New Year. New Year greeting to you all.

This time I am going to complete all the presentations of hospital Administration which constitute the hospital management of ‘Total health care management’.

The other parts of Health care management will follow. So keep visiting the site regularly to broaden your knowledge bank.

Anybody want to have a soft copy of the entire package of these presentations can write to me at addlmsncd@gmail.com. However you may have to empty your pocket to some extent to have a soft copy.

The details you will know when you ask for the full package.

With Best Regards,

Dr. N. C. DAS


Hospital Administration Made Easy

Consumer Protection Act :: HospiAd

CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT

We have already discussed the various challenges facing a Hospital. To again summarize:-

• Rapid development in Med. Tech.
• Increase Health awareness of people
• Rapid Urbanization
• Increase demand for better facilities
• Active participation of Media
• Legal involvements in hospital affair
• Maintaining peaceful internal environment
• Increased Political interference
• Better and quick communication facilities
• Competitive private health care facilities
• Increase in Senior Citizens
• Higher level of consumers expectations
• Marketing of hospital services
• The biggest nature of challenge is from the Wish list of health care institution, expanded need list of professionals and demand list of users (patient), people and community

All these challenges may lead the hospital vulnerable under ‘Consumer Protection Act’ The consumer Protection Act (1986) came into force on 15th April 1987. The Act was amended by the CPA amended act 2003and in force from 15.3.2003. It has a three tier quashi judicial machinery of administration and re-dressal system.

The provisions of this act are in addition to and not in degradation of any other law for the time being in force. The sole aim of this act is “To protect the interests of the Consumer.” In view of the risks under CPA all medical professionals must know:

1. What is the content of this Act.
2. What are various implications
3. How to protect you and your hospital from the clutches of this Act.

All these are discussed in detail in the following presentation.

Hospital Public Relation :: Hospiad

We have discussed earlier in the hospital system that there is a patient system.
Each and every hospital staff comes in contact with hospital patients at some or other form and one or other times. We have also discussed that hospital system is an open system because of its dependency on the external environment

A hospital cannot exist without dependency or good relation with patients and other public institutions as its basic motto is ‘good patient care’ This type of relation is called ‘Hospital Public Relation’

If a hospital has to achieve name, fame, morale and prestige for the institution in the eyes of the public, then it has to create and strengthen contacts that can contribute to the development of mutual understanding, respect and reciprocation between the hospital and its public. Therefore, public relation is one of the important component of the hospital and it is a challenge to the survival of the hospital in the community.


Along with keeping a good relation to provide the level of patient and public satisfaction, the hospital needs cooperation goodwill of other public institutions on which it it depends to perform its task satisfactorily.

The present presentation highlights the various factors and issueses which needs consideration to develop a good hospital publid relation support.