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The working of the 1983 Mental Health Act: the experience of patients, relatives, psychiatrists, general practitioners and social workers involved in compulsory admission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Lynne Webster  and
Christine Dean
Lynne Webster
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of South Manchester, West Didsbury
Christine Dean
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH
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The 1983 Mental Health Act was introduced to increase the safeguards of the civil liberties of patients. One of the new provisions is that it is now the statutory responsibility of hospital managers to inform detained patients of their rights; this is done by giving them a leaflet explaining the appeal procedures. Doubt has been expressed (Dunlop, 1979) about whether this is an efficient means of conveying information to acutely ill patients.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 9 , September 1989 , pp. 477 - 479
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