The need for “Code of Practice” as a supplement to Mental Healthcare Act 2017

Mental Healthcare Act (MHCA) 2017 is the current legislation overseeing and protecting the mental healthcare of patients with mental illness. All professionals working with this vulnerable patient population must abide by this legislation. This article is an attempt to make a case for the need for a...

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Autor principal: Nallur, Divya Ganesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31040477
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description Mental Healthcare Act (MHCA) 2017 is the current legislation overseeing and protecting the mental healthcare of patients with mental illness. All professionals working with this vulnerable patient population must abide by this legislation. This article is an attempt to make a case for the need for a “Code of Practice” (CoP) as a statutory guidance document to help all stakeholders in implementing the legislation. It is argued that the CoP is essential to effectively safeguard the rights and autonomy of the patients and to safeguard professionals from uneasy repercussions from unintended mistakes in implementing the legislation.
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spelling pubmed-64827022019-04-30 The need for “Code of Practice” as a supplement to Mental Healthcare Act 2017 Nallur, Divya Ganesh Indian J Psychiatry Review Article Mental Healthcare Act (MHCA) 2017 is the current legislation overseeing and protecting the mental healthcare of patients with mental illness. All professionals working with this vulnerable patient population must abide by this legislation. This article is an attempt to make a case for the need for a “Code of Practice” (CoP) as a statutory guidance document to help all stakeholders in implementing the legislation. It is argued that the CoP is essential to effectively safeguard the rights and autonomy of the patients and to safeguard professionals from uneasy repercussions from unintended mistakes in implementing the legislation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6482702/ /pubmed/31040477 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_113_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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