The paper focusses specifically on the role of the Nearest Relative under the Mental Health Act 1983 in England and Wales. Nearest Relatives are given powers to prevent an admission in hospital for treatment or to request an independent review of detention. Conversely, they are also empowered to...
(FNNWV) for class-imbalanced crowdsourcing.Specifically, FNNWV considers the nearest neighbors to be more similar to the inferred instance and thus uses them to vote ayes in weighted voting.Yet at the same time, FNNWV considers the farthest neighbors to be more different from the inferred ...
[In this article, the term 'patient' is used to describe a person who is detained under the Mental Health Act, liable to be detained, or in hospital on an informal basis. The term 'service user' describes someone receiving psychiatric services but who is neither hospitalised nor subject to...
[In this article, the term 'patient' is used to describe a person who is detained under the Mental Health Act, liable to be detained, or in hospital on an informal basis. The term 'service user' describes someone receiving psychiatric services but who is neither hospitalised nor subject to...
HEALTH care reformResearch shows that tensions between family carers and professionals become acute where the issue of compulsory admission to hospital is at stake. In England and Wales, a specific family member is appointed to safeguard the interests of a person assessed under ...
The 'nearest relative' and social work roles in mental health services share common ground. Although the social worker is a trained professional and the nearest relative is identified from a fixed hierarchy of kin, both roles were awarded the authority to make a compulsory order for hospital ...
Compulsory admission of patients to hospital for assessment and for treatment is governed by sections 2 and 3, respectively, of the Mental Health Act 1983. The nearest relative of a patient plays an important role in the admission of a patient under those two sections...