Special Interest Day: Consent and Restriction of Liberty - 2nd December 2011

The day addressed issues such as:

·      Assessing and recording capacity and competency (for young people from 0 – 18 years)

·      The role of parental consent

·      The legal aspects of having an informal patient

·      on a locked ward

·      What to do if a 15/16 year old informal patient wishes to leave the unit late at night

·      The legal aspects surrounding NG tube feeding where there is no consent from young people and/or their parents

Presentations from the day will be available here shortly.

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