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National Health Law Conference



National Health Law Conference
The National Health Law Conference will be an annual definitive program for private hospital administrators, hospital board members, private health professionals, health entrepreneurs, health insurance companies and the legal counsels who represent them. Presentations will offer in-depth, practical discussion of the legal and regulatory issues affecting private health and private hospitals, and provide a must-have set of guidelines, materials and resources.
This program will provide a unique opportunity for private health practitioners, government lawyers, and in-house counsels to learn from each other in a conference setting. Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law are increasingly dominant in the independent private healthcare industry.
It will bring together existing health lawyers in Uganda to discuss and collaborate on issues of importance in the development of health law and policies.
Conference Objectives;
  • Promote awareness and understanding of health law in the independent private health sector
  • Describe the role of law in health service delivery
  • Examine hospital personnel issues such as the challenges associated with workplace relationships, how a hospital should proceed when a patient is injured during treatment, and the usage of medical history records
  • Learn about the legal issues in the healthcare industry
·         Explain the sources of the government’s legal authority to protect private health
  • Identify constitutional principles and obligations that regulate private health
  • Review recent case law regarding health
  • Recognize when legal advice or assistance may be required
  • Learn about Patient Safety law
  • Evaluate the Health laws, regulations and codes of practice regarding private health providers
  • Apply legal thinking to emerging private health challenges
  • Promote health law research, teaching and practice in Uganda
  • Learn about private health consumer complaints handling
Target Groups

• bioethicists • researchers • writers • ethics committee members • physicians • nurses • social workers • psychologists • psychiatrists • doctors involved in legal medicine • lawyers • judges • • philosophers • researchers • writers • educators • rectors, deans and administrators of academic institutes • hospital managers • teachers and students of medical, nursing, ethics, psychology, philosophy and law schools and faculties • professional, cultural and volunteer organizations and associations • governmental & public bodies • speech therapists

Main Aspects

• bio-ethics and medical ethics in Uganda • ethics of transplantation • rationing in healthcare systems - ethical implications in era of limited resources • bioethics & law • eco-bioethics • dental ethics & law • environmental ethics & law • ethics & religions • ethics & social sciences • immigration & bioethics • medical ethics & law • ethics committees • health law & bioethics • speech & language therapy & bioethics • meta-ethics • nursing ethics & law • pharmacy ethics & law • philosophical ethics • professional risk & bioethics • psychiatry & bioethics • rehabilitation & bioethics • science & bioethics • research & bioethics • surgery & bioethics • technological ethics & law • youth & bioethics • volunteers activities & bioethics • bio-politics & ethics • governmental health allowances: ethical dilemmas

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