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- Call to curb NHS drug bill (Video)
- Co-occurring Disorders - Systems Integration (USA evidence)
Five of the changes are substantive:
- providing for civil partners to be patients’ nearest relatives for the purposes of the Act (and giving them equal status with spouses)
- increasing the maximum penalty for ill-treatment or neglect of patients from 2 to 5 years
- requiring all future restriction orders made by the higher courts when ordering the detention of mentally disordered offenders in hospital to be made without limit of time, so the special restrictions they impose are only lifted when the Secretary of State for Justice or the Mental Health Review Tribunal is satisfied they are no longer needed to protect the public from serious harm
- allowing 16 or 17 year olds to refuse to be admitted to hospital for mental health treatment, even if their parents are willing to consent: this is so that these young people do not end up in effect detained in hospital against their will, but without the protections given to people who are formally detained under the Mental Health Act.
- making a small change to the rules about eligibility for help from independent mental capacity advocates under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, so that a few people who would otherwise have been excluded will now be covered.
- Predictors of suicide attempters in substance-dependent
patients: a six-year prospective follow-up
- Reducing drug related harm An action plan [NTA, UK]
- World Health Day 2007: International Health Security ~ HEADLINE NEWS ARTICLE
- Doctors' regulatory power 'to go' ~ HEADLINE NEWS ARTICLE
- UNICEF report on childhood in industrialised countries ~ HEADLINE NEWS ARTICLE
