Restorative justice in healthcare settings: Better outcomes for patients and medical professionals

Title: Restorative justice in healthcare settings: Better outcomes for patients and medical professionals
Creator: Nickson, Ray; Neikirk, Alice
Relation: Alternative Law Journal Vol. 49, Issue 2, p. 91-96
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X241248781
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2024
Description: Current responses to medical negligence insufficiently consider the broader needs of affected stakeholders. We argue that responses to medical negligence should adopt a restorative justice frame. This article recounts the experience of our daughter’s avoidable suffering and subsequent death in the healthcare system. Our experience as victims of medical negligence, and the broader literature on restorative justice, responsive regulation and health care, suggest that non-adversarial alternatives will better address the needs of victims and encourage a restoration in healthcare relationships.
Subject: restorative justice; health care; responsive regulation; medical negligence; non-adversarial justice
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1505913
Identifier: uon:55773
Identifier: ISSN:1037-969X
Rights: x
Language: eng
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