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One of the five overarching principles of the Mental Health Act: Code of Practice is to provide patients with care and treatment which is least restrictive whilst encouraging recovery and promoting independence. However, there is limited research which explores the application of these principles within a medium secure unit. The aims of the research were to explore what are patient’s experiences of least restrictive practices and to what extent do they perceive that least restrictive practices maximise their independence and recovery.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
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Sexual boundary violations by healthcare professionals is a subject that has largely been ignored in the UK. There has been little research into the field. It is rarely taught on professional training courses and practitioners appear to know very little about it. The history of sexual boundary violations is littered with failures to notice, failures to report and inadequate justice for victims and perpetrators alike. Perpetrators are commonly assumed to be predators. Given the many widely reported recent events in our media of both predatory and other sexual offenders, we believe it is timely for all healthcare and other professions working with vulnerable people to take the problem seriously, to provide appropriate services for victims, evaluation and assessment of perpetrators, and sanctions that fit the crime in order to regain public trust.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
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This bill aims to increase oversight and management of the use of force in relation to people in mental health units and similar institutions and require police officers to wear body cameras when attending mental health units.
Members discussed a range of subjects, including the use of force in mental health units, the situation for young people and children and police response to mental health.
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Health and social care professionals are gatekeepers to, and custodians of, confidential service user information. In the United Kingdom (UK), police investigations have unveiled cases of payments being made to public service officials by journalists in return for service user information. The purpose of this discussion is to investigate such cases in the context of high-security forensic care. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Placebo-controlled trials in drug-free patients have long been considered a key research component in the study of mood disorders and relevant treatment mechanisms. However, concerns have been raised about the ethics of such research, leading to an ongoing debate as to whether placebo controls are ethically acceptable. We aimed to assess the cumulative effects of research in individuals with mood disorders and to provide data to address ethical concerns regarding research in this population. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Can placebo-controlled clinical trials of patients with depression be done ethically and safely? Ethicists have argued for more than two decades against placebo controls in trials in general, and in people with mental illness in particular.1,2 These objections have been ventured on several grounds, including: (1) lack of scientific necessity; (2) the availability of effective treatments (citing the Declaration of Helsinki,2 which asserts “…every patient—including those of a control group, if any—should be assured of the best proven diagnostic and therapeutic method”3); (3) the inability of patients with mental illness to provide informed consent because of mental incapacity;1 and (4) the risks to participants. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai