Staff Profile:Christopher Newdick

Name:

Professor Christopher Newdick

Job Title:

Professor, Careers Officer

Responsibilities:

Chris currently teaches the following courses on the LL.B programme:

• Medical Law
• Contract Law

Chris also supervised postgraduate research students:

• EU Health Care Rights and Social Solidarity
• Product Liability 

Areas of Interest:

Health Law; Pharmaceutical Law; Product Liability.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

• Editorial: "Treating failed asylum seekers in the NHS", (2009) 338 BMJ 1614.
• "The European Court of Justice, Transnational Health Care, and Social Citizenship - Accidental Death of a Concept?, (2009), 26 Wisconsin International Law Journal 845-68.
• "Preserving Social Citizenship in Health Care Markets - There May be Trouble Ahead", (2008) 2 McGill Journal of Law and Health 93-108.
• "Solidarity, Rights and Social Welfare in the NHS - Resisting the Tide of Bioethics?", (2008), in (Ed) A.P. den Exter, International Health Law - Solidarity and Justice in Health Care 83-94 (Maklu, Antwerp).
• "Judicial Review: Low-Priority Treatment and Exceptional Case Review" (2007), 15 Medical Law Review, 236-244.
• "Citizenship, Free Movement and Health Care: Cementing Individual Rights by Corroding Social Solidarity" (2006) 43 Common Market Law Review 1645-68.
• Who Should We Treat? – Rights, Rationing and Resources in the NHS (2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2005) XX+278.

Recent Conference Papers:

• "Why PCTs Need Ethical Frameworks," (National Prescribing Centre, First Annual Conference on Local Decision-Making, London, March 2010)
• "An English Perception of the Draft Cross-border Access to Health Directive - Balancing Individual Rights and Social Solidarity," (Faculty of Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen, October 2009).
• "The Impact of the NHS Constitution - Balancing Private Rights with Public Duties," (UK Forum on Priority Setting, University of Manchester, September 2009).
• "Topping-Up - Fundamental Ethics, or the Least Worst Option?" (Applied Health Economics Group, London School of Economics, September 2009).
• "A Patient's Bill of Rights for Ontario? - England's Experience with the NHS Constitution," Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto (June 2009, at the invitation of the Canada Institute for Health).
• "Patients' Rights – Increasing the Intensity of Judicial Review," Fourth International Conference on Priority Setting in Health Care (September 2008, Newcastle/Gateshead Conference Centre, co-ordinated by the University of Newcastle).
• "Access to Health Care in the UK – Law, Rights and Bioethics" (Faculty of Law, University of Rotterdam, September 2008).
• "Preserving Social Citizenship in Health Care Markets" (British Association of Canadian Studies, Canada House, Conference on Health Law and Policy in Canada and the UK, July 2008).
• "The ECJ, Trans-national Health Care and Social Citizenship - Accidental Death of a Concept?" (Faculty of Law, University of Wisconsin, USA, March 2008, as part of the conference on Health Care Tourism - US-EU Dialogue).
• Liberty, or Equality? Individualism and Communitarianism? (Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Summer School, Public Health: Justice, Autonomy and the Common Good, University of Leicester, September 2007).
• Health Care Rights and Distributive Justice. (7th Annual Conference of the UK Clinical Ethics Network, Portsmouth, May 2007).

Qualifications:

B.A., C.N.A.A.; LL.M. (London); Barrister

Biographical Details:

Chris Newdick is a barrister and the Professor of Health Law. His special interests concern the rights and duties arising within the National Health Service. He teaches a popular course on the subject in the Law School. His teaching and supervision is informed by his research in the area and his experience as a member of the Department of Health's Medicines Commission, as an Honorary Consultant to Berkshire West PCT, a member of the Berkshire Priorities Committee, an advisor to the BMA Working Party on NHS Rationing and the NHS National Prescribing Committee.

Other Activities

Member of Berkshire Priorities Committee; Honorary Consultant to Berkshire West PCT