Dr Marc Cornock
Senior Lecturer, Healthcare Law
School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care
Biography
Professional biography
Marc Cornock is an academic lawyer and Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Law in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University.
Before joining the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open University, Marc was Senior Lecturer in the Open University Law School and prior to that was Principal Lecturer and Academic Lead for law in health care in The Faculty of Health and Social Work at the University of Plymouth.
During a professional career within health care, Marc undertook a master’s degree in medical law and a PhD at Cardiff University Law School and studied undergraduate law at The Open University.
Marc’s teaching interests lie in both general law and in health law. Marc has lectured on legal aspects of health care to various professional groups. His research focuses on the interface between the law and health care practice; he has written extensively on this for professional and academic audiences and is the author of several books on various aspects of health care law for students, practitioners and patients: including Key Questions in Healthcare Law and Ethics (Sage).
Projects
Validation & evaluation of a decision-making tool for assessing behaviours and incidents involving nurses on social media
PRISM: Professional Regulation In Social Media. AIM: Validate the A2A decision making tool to assist nurses, managers, academics and professional organisations to make consistent decisions about nursing related incidents and reported behaviours on social media. This will also serve to raise awareness of e-professionalism and manage risk. OBJECTIVES: I. Assess & validate the consistency of the decision-making tool through responses from nurses, nursing students and the public on a series of vignettes II. Evaluate the consistency and usability of the tool through qualitative and quantitative feedback III. Make recommendations for consistent assessment of professional and unprofessional behaviours on social media IV. Disseminate the tool to stakeholders through a range of methods
Publications
Book
Records and record-keeping: a pocket guide for nursing and healthcare (2024)
Confidentiality: a pocket guide for nursing and health care (2023)
A Straightforward Guide to Healthcare Rights and Law for Patients, Carers and Practitioners (2023)
Consent: A Pocket Guide for Nursing and Health Care (2023)
Accountability and Professionalism in Nursing and Healthcare (2023)
Book Chapter
Law and policy for children and young people’s nursing (2023)
Law and policy for children and young people’s nursing (2017)
Children’s rights since Margaret Thatcher (2014)
Ethical and legal considerations of community nursing (2001)
Journal Article
Treating patients who lack competence (2024)
Does my patient lack competence? (2024)
Research ethics, consent and publication (2023)
Rights, ethics and law: an introduction (2023)
Researchers, authors and consent (2022)
Consent – the legal evidence base (2022)
Case reports and ethics: Focus on consent, privacy and authorship (2021)
To indemnify or not: professional indemnity arrangements (2020)
A summary of law and ethics for the new health care practitioner (2020)
Organ donation in the United Kingdom (2020)
Revisiting informed consent (2020)
Record keeping and documentation: a legal perspective (2019)
Exploring public perspectives of e-professionalism in nursing (2019)
Editorial: How the writers of case reports need to consider and address consent and GDPR (2018)
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and implications for research. (2018)
Advancing professional health care practice and the issue of accountability (2017)
A brief guide to reviewing research articles (2015)
Refusing, or being unable, to provide consent (2015)
Writing for publication (2015)
Legal principles of responsibility and accountability in professional healthcare (2014)
Children's bodies: the battleground for their rights? (2013)
Not another missed opportunity: regulation of health care professionals (2012)
What to do when an employer acts unfairly (2012)
Clinical competency in children’s nursing: a legal commentary (2011)
Parental rights and responsibilities in law (2011)
Editorial: The tenth anniversary issue (2011)
Whistleblowing: a legal commentary (2011)
Confidentiality: the legal issues (2011)
Professional indemnity and its importance: a legal overview (2011)
Accepting or refusing gifts: a legal commentary (2011)
Liability and collaborative working (2011)
Legal definitions of responsibility, accountability and liability (2011)
Saying sorry: the legal implications (2011)
A legal commentary on negligence (2011)
Children’s rights in and out of the womb (2011)
A glance back and a brief look forward (2010)
Learn your rights about dismissal (2010)
Working to bring up baby (2010)
Hannah Jones, consent and the child in action: a legal commentary (2010)
Staying calm in the face of adversity (2009)
Burden of blowing the whistle is lightened (2009)
Chastising a child - the legal position (2008)
The legal status of the term 'next of kin' (2008)
Circumcision in young boys: A legal commentary (2007)
Fraser guidelines or Gillick competence? (2007)
Parental responsibility: A legal perspective (2007)
Euthanasia: the situation in Ireland (2007)
The Healthcare Commission tackles hygiene in hospital (2007)
Decision-making in palliative care: the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (2007)
Professional updating and guidance on children and young persons (2007)
Professional regulation (2006)
Application of the doctrine of double effect in end stage disease (2003)
A future for critical care education (2002)
Legal aspects of decision-making in critical care (2002)
A new approach to critical care education (2001)
Stress and the intensive care patient: perceptions of patients and nurses (1998)
Guillain-Barré syndrome: biological basis, treatment and care (1997)
Making sense of central venous catheters (1996)
Making sense of central venous pressure (1996)
Making sense of arterial blood gases and their interpretation (1996)
