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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