A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters is a concise, pragmatic and clinically focused resource on medical law.

Jane Sturgess, Consultant Anaesthetist and Associate Lecturer, West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, UK, Derek Duane, Consultant Neuroanaesthetist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Rebekah Ley, Assistant Director, Medico-Legal Department, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

• 1: Vikram Sachdeva: The English legal system


• 2: Sarah Elliston: Consent to treatment


• 3: Rebekah Ley and Natalie Hayes: Confidentiality and information disclosure


• 4: Nigel Ley and Jane Sturgess: Medical negligence and complaints


• 5: David Morris, Belinda Cheney, and Martin Goddard: The Coroner


• 6: Zöe Fritz: End of life


• 7: Keith Rigg: Organ donation and transplantation


• 8: Richard Biram: Elderly care law


• 9: Roddy O'Donnell: Child health law


• 10: Anthony Holland, Elizabeth Fistein, and Cathy Walsh: Mental health law


• 11: Anna Curley: Medical regulation


• 12: William Roche: Healthcare management


• 13: David de Monteverde-Robb: Legal basis for prescribing


• Glossary