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Legal and contractual implications of the informal admission of psychiatric patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye
Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye*
Affiliation:
Adult Mental Health Unit, Lambeth Healthcare NHS Trust 108 Landor Road, Stockwell, London SW9 9NT
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Abstract

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The lack of official consideration of the legal and contractual implications of the informal admission of psychiatric patients has resulted in a situation in which individual hospitals and mental nursing homes have generated their own mistaken assumptions about the nature of this form of admission, often to the detriment of patients.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 8 , August 1998 , pp. 501 - 505
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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