PsychRights^®
                   Law Project for
              Psychiatric Rights

United Kingdom

Barry Turner is our coordinator in the UK

• Submission by the European Network of (ex) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry [ENUSP ] in response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights' request for evidence relating to the The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 24 October 2008
• RTE News Video Clip: "Unhealthy Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry"
• In Future Perfect mental health users envision a mental health system without hospitals.
• Informed Consent in Britain
  The Future of Informed Consent in British Common Law, By Murray Earle, European Journal of Health Law 6: 235-248, 1999.
  • Legal standard of care: a shift from the traditional Bolam test, by Ash and Jo Samanta, Clinical Medicine Vol 3 No 5 September/October 2003.
  • Reference Guide to Consent for Examination or Treatment, Department of Health, 2001.

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