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Understanding the relevance of human rights in healthcare and nursing practice

Author(s) -

Louise Terry,

Roger Newham

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

nursing standard

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.133

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 2047-9018

pISSN - 0029-6570

DOI - 10.7748/ns.2020.e11490

Subject(s) - personality , relevance (law) , psychology , health care , affect (linguistics) , health professionals , nursing , applied psychology , social psychology , medicine , political science , communication , law

While the NHS aims to respect the human rights of every individual, it also has a wider social duty to promote equality in the services it provides. This means that the rights of individual patients are not absolute, because the aim of the NHS is to improve the overall health and well-being of the nation. For example, certain treatments may be withheld from individuals because of the excessive cost to the NHS, or concerns about its clinical effectiveness. This article explains the origins of human rights and their function, and examines the relationship between nursing care and human rights.

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