Treating non-competent patients

British Medical Journal

Volumn 331, Issue 7529, 2005, Pages 1353-1354

  Corfield, Lorraine ^a   Granne, Ingrid ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE; EDITORIAL; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL APPROACH; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

LEGAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT;

EID: 33644681747     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1353     Document Type: Editorial

References (5)

1. Mental Capacity Act 2005. www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2005/20050009. htm (accessed 5 Dec 2005).
2. Re Y (Mental Patient: Bone Marrow Donation) [1996] 2 FLR 787.
3. Mental Capacity Bill. Draft code of practice. ss5.21-5.24. www.dca.gov.uk/menincap/mcbdraftcode.pdf (accessed 13 July 2005).
4. Portsmouth NHS Trust v Wyatt [2004] EWHC 2247.
5. Glass United Kingdom [2004] 1 FLR 1019.