Editorial: On-going challenges, responsibility and influences in healthcare law and policy – essays in honour of Chris Newdick

Abstract

This special issue critiques the challenges, responsibilities and influences facing different stakeholders in the development of healthcare law and policy in the United Kingdom. It brings together leading scholars to offer insightful analysis on the many questions posed on how decisions on whom to treat are taken at macro and micro levels. The inspiration for this special issue stems from the work of Professor Christopher Newdick, who has been instrumental in forging a new way of resolving conflict between competing interests in the provision and regulation of healthcare. A symposium was held at the University of Reading in April 2022 to celebrate Newdick’s work and some of the papers presented there make up this special issue.