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Access to health records

Access to health records

This factsheet explains how and when you can access health records and further information.

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  • ISBN: 978 1 84310 4834
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Advance Directives in Mental Health

Advance Directives in Mental Health

A comprehensive and accessible guide for mental health professionals advising service users on advance directives.

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Advocacy

Advocacy

A factsheet designed to help people using mental health services say what they want, obtain their rights and gain access to the services they need.

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Challenging Closures Factsheet

Challenging Closures Factsheet

While mental health services may be closed for a variety of reasons, in some cases it is possible to challenge the closure.  This factsheet looks at why services might close, the proper procedure for closure, and how this might be challenged.

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Clinical negligence

Clinical negligence

This factsheet decribes what clinical negligence is, how to find out if you have a case, the difference between clinical negligence and complaints and further useful information.

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Confidentiality

Confidentiality

This factsheet explains what confidentiality means in practice and why it exists.

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Detention under the Mental Health Act

Detention under the Mental Health Act

This fact sheet provides basic information on what a mental disorder according to the Act is, what happens when you are sectioned, avoiding being sectioned, and the different types of civil section.

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Direct payments

Direct payments

This factsheet provides information on local council direct payments given to people who are assessed as having mental health problems or other disabilities and their carers.

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Disability Discrimination Act

Disability Discrimination Act

This fact sheet provides information on what the Disability Discrimination Act is, what the DDA covers, Employment and the DDA, Services and the DDA, Education and the DDA, and when discrimination is justified.

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Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

This factsheet contains information on what DLA is, who can claim it and how to fill in the DLA claim form.

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