Legal aspects of care in the community

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Clients and community care....Pages 9-29
Consent to treatment....Pages 30-60
Entry and removal from premises and compulsory detention....Pages 61-81
Confidentiality....Pages 82-91
Access to health records....Pages 92-105
Back Matter....Pages 106-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
General principles of accountability....Pages 112-128
Special situations....Pages 129-148
Health and safety: 1....Pages 149-174
Health and safety: 2....Pages 175-196
Record keeping and reports....Pages 197-204
Medicinal products in the community....Pages 205-215
Social workers: care managers and key workers....Pages 221-230
Community Nurses....Pages 231-240
Community psychiatric nurses....Pages 241-251
Specialist nurses....Pages 252-266
Health visitors....Pages 267-275
Practice nurses....Pages 276-286
Professions supplementary to medicine....Pages 287-295
Private practitioners....Pages 296-307
Back Matter....Pages 216-217
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Volunteers....Pages 308-317
Carers....Pages 318-330
Back Matter....Pages 216-217
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Health Authorities and Trusts....Pages 335-357
GP Fund-holding practices....Pages 358-377
Local authorities....Pages 378-410
The independent sector....Pages 411-424
Enforcement of statutory duties....Pages 425-456
Back Matter....Pages 457-458
Front Matter....Pages 459-459
Local authorities and the provision of accommodation....Pages 461-479
Registered homes 1: residential homes....Pages 480-494
Registered homes 2: nursing and mental nursing homes....Pages 495-513
Registered Homes 3: tribunals and complaints....Pages 514-523
Housing corporations and associations and planning concerns....Pages 524-539
Back Matter....Pages 540-541
Front Matter....Pages 543-543
Charges and income....Pages 545-563
The management of finances and handling client’s property....Pages 564-576
The future....Pages 579-581
Back Matter....Pages 577-577
Back Matter....Pages 582-658