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Other library resources - DH and Parliamentary publications
Count Me In: Results of a National census of inpatients in mental health hospitals and facilities in England and Wales, November 2005
Epidemiology of involuntary placement of mentally ill people across the EU, Hans Joachim Salize and Harald Dressing, British Journal of Psychiatry (2004) 184, 163-168
A comparison of ethical attitudes of English and German health professionals and lay people towards involuntary admission: Implications for the new Mental Health Act (England & Wales), Peter Lepping, Tilman Steinert, and Ralf-Peter Gebhardt, Volume 4, January 2004
Link to article on PSL journal website
Compulsory Admission and Involuntary Treatment of Mentally Ill Patients - Legislation and Practice in EU-member states, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany. May 2002
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Risk Assessment - ‘numbers’ and ‘values’, George Szmukler, Psychiatric Bulletin (2003) 27, 205-207
What can the Human Rights Act do for my Mental Health? Baroness Hale, Paul Sieghart Memorial Lecture, 2004
link to article on BIHR website
Mental Disorder and the European Convention, lecture by Genevra Rchardson, 5 December 2002
link to article on BIHR website
Draft Mental Health Bill, Joint Committee on Human Rights Report, 4th November 2002
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A Question of Numbers: The potential impact of community-based treatment orders in England and Wales, King's Fund, 2005
link to article on King's Fund website
Compulsory Community and Involuntary Outpatient Treatment for people with mental disorders (Review), Kisely, S., Campbell L.A., Preston, N., The Cochrane Collaboration 2005
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How patients in New Zealand view Community Treatment Orders, Gibbs, Dawson, Ansley and Mullen, Journal of Mental Health, (2005) 14(4), 357-368
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Community Treatment Orders: International Comparisons, John Dawson, May 2005
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In Place of Fear? Eleventh Biennial Report 2003-5, Mental Health Act Commission, 2006
Placed amongst strangers: Twenty years of the Mental Health Act 1983 and future prospects for psychiatric compulsion Tenth Biennial Report 2001-3, Mental Health Act Commission, 2003
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Mind the Law: Mind's Evidence to the Government's Mental Health Legislation Scoping Study Review Team Margaret Pedler, February 1999