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Consent to Treatment: Legal and Ethical Aspects*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Paul Bowden
Paul Bowden*
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Maudsley Hospital
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In anticipating the consultative paper A Review of the Mental Health Act, 1959 the College's Public Policy Committee prepared a report in 1974 (News and Notes, October, November 1974). The second of six points covered in the report related to compulsory detention and treatment. It reads:

The Working Party are firmly of the view that compulsory powers should include the power to treat patients compulsorily for any form of mental disorder, but has doubts as to how far certain types of treatment should be applied on the sole authority of the Responsible Medical Officer against the patient's will or when he is incapable of giving consent.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 5 , Issue 11 , November 1981 , pp. 207 - 209
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