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Government response to consultation on the Mental Capacity Act 2005: guidance on a nominated consultee for research
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document is the report on the consultation on the Mental Capacity Act Nominated Consultee Guidance. It discusses the main points arising from the responses received and the Department's position on these issues. The Consultation sought views on: whether the guidance given on reasonable steps that researchers should take to identify a person to consult is appropriate: and whether the guidance is sufficient to protect P’s interests (including P’s confidentiality) and to protect researchers and consultees against perceived conflicts of interest.
Guidance on nominating a consultee for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent: issued by the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers in accordance with section 32(3) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
The Welsh Ministers here publish guidance on how to identify an appropriate consultee for the purposes of section 32 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The guidance indicates how researchers should go about identifying an appropriate person to consult when they wish to carry out research which involves someone who lacks capacity to consent to take part.
Legal rights and mental health: the Mind manual
- Editors:
- SULEK Joanna, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 289p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This training manual focuses on: community care entitlement legislation, case law and relevant guidance; negligence and complaints procedures; discrimination and mental health: the survivor’s perspective; incapacity and decision making voluntary and involuntary admission – the Code of Practice ; mentally disordered offenders; consent to treatment and treatment without consent ; routes out of hospital, including Mental Health Review Tribunals' and the Human Rights Act.
Ethics in community mental health care
- Author:
- BACKLAR Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 32(4), August 1996, pp.321-325.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Discusses the difficulty in assessing decision-making capacities of people with mental health problems; to ensure that they are able to give authentic autonomous informed consent to, or refusal of, health care treatment.