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Capacity, consent and the law

Waite, Jonathan
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As health care professionals we owe a duty of care to our patients. Our patients have a right to autonomy – to make their own decisions. If we impose treatment on them against their wishes, when they have capacity to make a decision to refuse treatment, then we may be committing the tort of battery; if we fail to treat them when they lack capacity to make treatment decisions we may be found to be negligent.
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2019
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Electroconvulsive therapy
 Ethics
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Waite, J. (2019). Capacity, consent and the law. In: Ferrier, I. N. (ed.) The ECT handbook. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 254-266.
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https://mider.dspace7.openrepository.com/handle/20.500.12904/5507
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Available in the Library: https://nottshc.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=60669
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