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Helping people with learning disabilities exercise their right to autonomy

27 August 2014

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

This article aims to give readers an overview of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its role in supporting the right to autonomy of people who, because of their...

Pain scoring as a formal pain assessment tool

21 May 1997

Nursing Standard

Clinical

The working party report by the Royal College of Surgeons and The College of Anaesthetists (1990) concluded that the management of pain after surgery was...

Legal and ethical issues in end of life care: implications for primary health care

29 May 2015

Primary Health Care

CPD

Increasing numbers of patients are achieving their wish to die in the familiar surroundings of their own homes, which means that providing high quality,...

Promoting a patient’s right to autonomy: implications for primary healthcare practitioners. Part 2

25 March 2014

Primary Health Care

CPD

The aim of this second of two articles is to consider a range of situations in which practitioners may find respecting an adult patient’s right to autonomy...

Promoting a patient’s right to autonomy: implications for primary healthcare practitioners. Part 1

25 February 2014

Primary Health Care

CPD

It is an established legal and ethical principle that healthcare practitioners must respect a patient’s right to autonomy. However, clinicians may sometimes find...

Sociolegal and practice implications of caring for LGBT people with dementia

30 November 2016

Nursing Older People

Evidence & practice

The needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people with dementia are poorly recognised. This is due partly to assumptions that all older people are...

Volume reduction of arm lymphoedema

19 May 1993

Nursing Standard

Clinical oncology

The Lymphoedema Clinic at Sir Michael Sobell House was established in 1985 to provide physical treatment for patients with lymphoedema, most of which was...