Health and Care Law: Addressing Health and Care Inequalities Workshop

On Thursday 13 June the Birmingham Law School Care, Health and Human Flourishing Theme and the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy are holding a workshop on  "Health and Care Law: Addressing Health and Care Inequalities."

The event involves speakers drawn from a range of Universities and career stages.  There are 4 panels  "Inequalities and Health and Care delivery: Access, Structures and Safeguards"; "Justice and rights in health and care law and policy"; "Health Care Inequalities: a matter of reproductive choice" and  Autonomy, well-being and justice: inequalities and legal frameworks".

Programme

10:00- 11:30 Session 1: Inequalities and Health and Care delivery: Access, Structures and Safeguards

Chair: John Tingle

• “Health inequalities and healthcare access in a two-tier system: Mapping NHS and private healthcare interaction in England.” Mary Guy and Lee Newcombe (School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University)
• “Health and Care Inequalities: A Resource-Based Perspective.” David Horton, (Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool.)
• “Fundamental rights and health and social care inequalities: the case of the older person.” Jean McHale (Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham)

Tea and Coffee- 11:30- 11:45

11. 45 – 13.15 Session 2: Justice and rights in health and care law and policy

Chair: Kirsty Moreton

• “Developing an equitable public health law approach to gambling harms: why we need it, and what it should involve.” Kate Bedford (Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham) and Joht Singh Chandan (Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham)
• “Invisible Women: Identifying and Responding to Epistemic Injustice in Female Healthcare.” Laura O’Donovan, (University of Lancaster),Sarah Devaney, and Alexandra Mullock( Manchester Law School, University of Manchester)
• “Is it Time to Revisit the Human Rights Act 1998 in Private Care Provision?” Laura Pritchard- Jones, (Keele Law School, Keele University)

Lunch 13:15- 13: 45

13:45- 15:15 Session 3: Health Care Inequalities: a matter of reproductive choice

Chair: Samantha Schnobel

• “Notions of sexual and reproductive justice (RJ) and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) as constructed by Indigenous women in northeast of Brazil.” Atina Krajewska(Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham)
• “Addressing the inequality young, childfree women face under NHS care through surgical sterilisation refusals.” Kate Sandford, (School of Law, University of Liverpool)
• “Equity in Reproductive Healthcare.” Zeenat Beebeejaun (Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham). 

15:15: 15:30 Tea and Coffee 

15:30- 17:00 Session 4: Autonomy, well-being and justice: inequalities and legal frameworks

Chair: Amber Dar

• "Women with Severe Mental Illness and Obstetric Decision-making on a very uneven playing field.” Samantha Halliday, (Durham Law School, University of Durham)
• “A spatiotemporal argument against advance consent to deprivation of liberty.” Rosie Harding (Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham) and Magda Furgalska ( York Law School, University of York)
• “Homicides and homicide-suicides perpetrated by unpaid carers.” Siobhan O’Dwyer, (Health Service Management Centre, University of Birmingham)

17:00 Brief concluding comments and next steps: Jean McHale