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Sex, the person with a learning disability and the changing legal framework

01 April 2004

Learning Disability Practice

Policy

In relation to most areas of life, women and men with learning disabilities are covered by the same laws as other citizens. However, in relation to the expression of...

European Convention on Human Rights: effects on psychiatric care

18 July 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The introduction of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law will have a direct effect on practice in mental health care. The authors discuss developments...

When things go wrong: a nursing perspective

01 May 2003

Mental Health Practice

Legal issues

Since the publication of Safety First (Appleby 2001), the five-year report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicides and Homicides by people with Mental...

Patients’ rights

01 June 2003

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

Decision making surrounding consent to treatment is a difficult area for nurses. This article discusses the legal aspects of consent to treatment for men and women...

Evaluation of the use of leave of absence: an organisational case study

01 December 2003

Mental Health Practice

Clinical governance

There have been few systematic studies on the practice of granting leave of absence from hospital, but increasingly it is receiving attention from statutory bodies....

Working with internet paedophiles

01 June 2006

Mental Health Practice

General

The number of people in the UK who were cautioned or charged over internet child pornography offences quadrupled between 2001 and 2003. By 2003, a record number of...

Dealing with the danger signs

10 December 2008

Mental Health Practice

General

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) defines a personality disorder (PD) as ‘an enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that...

The Mental Capacity Act what you need to know

01 September 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

In 2003, an NOP survey revealed that 92 per cent of respondents thought that partners, wives or husbands had the right to make decisions on their behalf if they were...

The Mental Capacity Act: what you need to know

01 November 2007

Primary Health Care

General

On 1 October 2007 the Mental Capacity Act 2005 became law. The aim of the Act is to enable people to make their own decisions, and where this is not possible to...

Implications of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 on advance care planning at the end of life

19 September 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is concerned with decisions that are made on behalf of adults who lack the capacity to make those decisions for themselves. It has...