by admin | 13/01/19 | Resource
The latest issue of World Psychiatry, Volume 18, Issue 1 (February 2019), features several articles on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and capacity, and are free to access here:...
by admin | 06/12/18 | Resource
The final report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act is published today. The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 has set out recommendations (pdf) for the UK government on how the Act and associated practice needs to change. It cites the...
by admin | 03/12/18 | Resource
Author: Alex Ruck Keene To some extent, those responsible for pulling together the NICE guideline (NG 108) on decision-making and mental capacity published on 3 October were in an impossible position. They could not rewrite the Code of Practice, despite the fact that...
by admin | 11/02/18 | Resource
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities United Nations Human Rights Council Thirty-seventh session 26 February–23 March 2018 PDF Download “The Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Catalina Devandas...
by admin | 28/01/18 | Resource
Mapping Exclusion is one of Mental Health Europe’s main pieces of work and consists of mapping institutional and community care in the field of mental health in Europe. (Downloadable version) The second and revised version of Mapping and Understanding Exclusion was...
by admin | 27/09/17 | Resource
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Concluding observations on the initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Link to PDF
