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Lack of care
- Author:
- PARSONS Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(12), August 2001, p.416.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
A psychiatric patient known to be at high risk commits suicide. Can the trust be held responsible in law? Uses two case examples to provide an illustration of the circumstances that can potentially constitute a lack of care in the eye of the law.
Advance directives
- Author:
- PARSONS Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(10), June 2000, p.351.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
A solicitor describes, with a case history, how advance directives, although not completely binding, can be used to state treatment preferences should you lose decision-making capacity.