title: The road to the courts.
abstract: Nurses and health visitors are professionally accountable for their standards of practice, but they can also be called to account for their actions or omissions before a civil or criminal court. Andrew Andrews explains how the legal process operates when nurses and health visitors are accused of professional malpractice.
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authors: Andrews
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007884:Legislation, Nursing; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D006113:United Kingdom