Respecting the rights of the individual
Key message
People's freedom should be respected as far as possible when they are in hospital and there must be clear and regularly reviewed procedures in place when limits are placed on freedom.
Action needed
- All assessment wards for older people must, if the door is either permanently or temporarily locked, have a policy in place for locking the door. This policy should state the reason for this and should include a clear monitoring and review process. It must also address the rights of people who are not detained under mental helth legislation.
- People who what to leave the ward and are able to do so should not have unecessary barriers put in their way.
- The use of technology can help minimise the limits on a person's personal freedom and its use should be consider.
Visit and monitoring reports
- Mental health of prisoners
- Left Behind
- Lives less restricted
- Focussed visit report 2010/11
- Not properly authorised
- Decisions for Dignity
- A Home of My Own
- A Question of Balance
- Half year statistics
- Care and treatment in adult acute wards
- Learning Disability Census 2010
- Where do I go from here?
- About this report
- Respect for the rights of the individual
Key message and recommendations
- Consent to treatment
- Locking the front door
- Food and drink
- Access to advocacy
- Staff understanding of Part 6 AWI
- Provision of therapeutic activity
- Physical environment
- Other issues
- Greater expectations revisited report
- Young people in mental health services
- Rights, recovery and restriction report
- Supervision and support of private guardians
- Young people and welfare guardianship
- Care and treatment for people on short term detention
- Remember I'm Still Me
- Learning Disability Census 2008
- A Hospital or a Home
- Older and wiser
- Respect for diversity
- Missed opportunities
- Unnanounced visit report 2005
- Greater Expectations