Professional Development

Salford Law School (in association with Salford Professional Development Ltd.)

We offer a wide range of professional development and training products. You can select from the training packages below or we can tailor a programme to your requirements with a group size of ten or more participants.

Health Care Law Training packages

These are delivered by way of online materials over a 15 week period and include a face to face workshop at the University. The training packages would benefit those working as health care professionals and health care managers, as well as barristers and solicitors.

After completion of one of these training packages you can come back, undertake assessment and have the opportunity of gaining academic credit that can go towards an LLM award.

Health Care Law Foundation
This package aims to develop a sound knowledge of English and European Legal Systems, in particular, the sources of law and the principal features of criminal, civil and administrative law, the sources of health care law as well as a knowledge of health care ethics and philosophies and their impact on the development of Health Care Law. The knowledge acquired in this section provides the foundation for learning in other training packages.

Regulation of Health Care
This package aims to develop a broad knowledge and conceptual base in areas including; the organisation and structure of the National Health Service, existing systems for regulation of health care institutions, the roles of bodies involved in standard setting and bringing about improvements in health care (e.g. Department of Health, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and the Healthcare Commission), the regulation of health care professionals and the roles of various regulatory bodies as well as patients’ right to confidentiality and privacy of medical records and the provision of access to medical records.

Treatment of Vulnerable Groups
The training package aims to develop a broad knowledge and conceptual base in the existing law and the reform of the law relating to mental health, the rules on admission and treatment of patients to hospital and their rights when admitted and/or detained, the roles of the Mental Health Tribunals and the Mental Health Commission and selected aspects of care for other vulnerable groups including, children and the elderly.

Law, Society and Ethics
This package aims to develop a broad knowledge and conceptual base in a number of selected critical and highly topical health care issues, including the law and ethical issues surrounding ‘end of life’, human reproduction, organ donation and transplantation and clinical research.

Liabilities of Professionals
This training package aims to develop a broad knowledge in areas including; the nature of the legal duty owed by health care professionals to their patients, proposals for reform of the law governing negligence claims including a discussion of other systems or modes of liability (such as no fault liability) and the law of consent in clinical practice.

English Law Tasters

Salford Law School offers one week or two week summer courses for overseas lawyers wanting to familiarise themselves with the English Legal System. We can tailor these to individual requirements for groups of 10 or more.

Contract Law and Intellectual Property Law for Professionals

We also offer training in contract law and IP for those dealing with contracts regularly in their professional lives. Sessions can be tailored to individual requirements for groups of 10 or more. Typically, they will consist of the basics and background to contracts, liability and risk and IP issues in contracts.

For more information on all of these courses including how to apply, please see the Salford Professional Development website.