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Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the reforms to the death certification process and discusses the statutory examination of all deaths not referred to the coroner by a medical examiner.
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Death Certificates , Wales , Death Certificates/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , England , State Medicine/standards , State Medicine/legislation & jurisprudence , Coroners and Medical Examiners/legislation & jurisprudence , Coroners and Medical Examiners/standardsABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the dilemma faced by the police and health trusts where a hospital bed is not available for a person in a mental health crisis.
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Police , Humans , Mental Disorders , United Kingdom , State MedicineABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, discusses the importance of consent in nursing and outlines the key elements for ensuring the patient has given valid consent before providing treatment.
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Informed Consent , Informed Consent/legislation & jurisprudence , Informed Consent/standards , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the practical implications of undertaking mental capacity assessments with a person across a range of different decisions.
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Mental Competency , Humans , Mental Competency/legislation & jurisprudence , United Kingdom , Decision MakingABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, discusses the importance of not allowing unreasonable family demands for care influence the determination of best interests for a person who lacks capacity.
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Mental Competency , Humans , Universities , United KingdomABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the notion of residual liberty and the need for further authorisation when a detained patient is given treatment for a physical disorder under restraint.
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Mental Health , Mentally Ill Persons , Humans , Patients , Restraint, Physical , UniversitiesABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers two cases from the Upper Tribunal appeals chamber that clarify the application of the appropriate treatment test in the Mental Health Act 1983.
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Mental Health , Humans , UniversitiesABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the implications of a recent Court of Protection ruling for nurses who undertake mental capacity assessments.
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Brain , Mental Competency , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, discusses a UK Supreme Court decision that clarified which aftercare body was responsible for funding services under the Mental Health Act 1983.
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Aftercare , Mental Health , Humans , UniversitiesABSTRACT
Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the judgment in Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v JS [2023], which provides much needed clarity on the interface between the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to authorise a deprivation of liberty.
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Mental Competency , Mental Health , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the limits to personal autonomy using body modification to illustrate the legal principles of consent.
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Mental Competency , Personal Autonomy , Humans , Universities , Informed Consent , United KingdomABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the role of the National Deprivation of Liberty Court in authorising care arrangements for children that amount to a deprivation of liberty.
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Mental Competency , Child , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, discusses the requirement that acts and decisions made in a person's best interests are a necessary and proportionate interference in their life.
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Universities , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the use of hospital and limitation directions when sentencing a person with a mental disorder who has been found guilty of a crime.