Liberty Protection Safeguards: what nurses need to know
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Liberty Protection Safeguards: what nurses need to know

Radhika Holmström , Health writer

Nurses should prepare for the new Liberty Protection Safeguards – and how it will affect them

Existing Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) are being replaced in England and Wales by new Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) and the change is set to have a major effect on the work of learning disability nurses.

Learning Disability Practice. 23, 3, 15-17. doi: 10.7748/ldp.23.3.15.s11

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