Sheffield Health Law & Policy Research Group

Welcome

• What is good health law or policy?
• Should laws and policies on the health of the population be grounded in ethics or in markets?
• What is the appropriate balance between individual interests and collective benefits in health contexts, and how should law promote those?
• How should we regulate technological health innovations so as to gain from their promise without exposing people to unacceptable risk?
• What is the appropriate mix of binding ‘law’ and non-binding ‘policy’ in achieving optimal health outcomes, in the context of shrinking public resources?
• Or are these questions themselves based on problematic dichotomies, which we would seek to challenge rather than embed in legal structures?

These are difficult questions in any context, but are particularly difficult in the context of the highly diverse and complicated European regulatory framework within which the UK health system, and the law which governs it, is situated.

Our Research

New Publication: ‘European Law and New Health Technologies’

New Publication: A Good Death? Law and Ethics in Practice

Knowledge Transfer: Medical confidentiality, access to health records in Jamaica

New Publication: ‘Coming into line: the EU’s Court softens on crossborder health care’

New Publication: Law, Innovation and Technology

New Publication: European Union Health Law – Treaties and Legislation

New Research Project: RECODE (Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe)

Dr Mark Taylor appointed establishing Chair of new group to provide advice on research access to confidential patient information

New Research Project: Establishing the Public Interest in Research Access to Confidential Health Records.

Events

We host seminars and other events designed to bring together experts from related disciplines including science, medicine, medical and legal professionals, industry actors, national and supranational regulatory bodies, political and legal theorists.

Catch up on past events...

Obama-care: Adopting Accountable Care through the Medicare Framework?
Louise G Trubek, University of Wisconsin Law School

Healthcare access in the Netherlands and the relevance of international treaty law
André den Exter, Erasmus University of Rotterdam

Current and future projects and aims

Members are involved in funded projects which consider cutting edge questions of health law and policy. We are also working on developing projects on the themes with funders and collaborators. Our aim is to produce high quality research which helps to define the discipline of health law, to question and inform the development of health law and policy, towards effective legal and policy settlements.

Expertise

We have over 10 members of staff with internationally excellent research profiles and links to relevant bodies such as the NHS and the emerging National Information Governance Committee. Meet our members

We collaborate with other research groups, institutions, government bodies here in the UK and accross Europe. Find out more about our collaborations