title: The rights of staff in the treatment of the mentally ill.
abstract: If we accept the premise that adequate health care is the right of every individual, it follows that the provider of health care must, as a basic right, have the opportunity and the conditions necessary to provide such care. The author defines and describes a set of staff rights that bear directly on the treatment process. Rights of staff include having sufficient resources to provide adequate care, participating in the allocation of resources and the setting of priorities, being accountable for clinical matters to the highest governing authority, having clinical practice reviewed by peers, and practicing without excessive and unnecessary regulation.
mesh_terms: D001318:Authoritarianism; D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006075:Governing Board; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010380:Peer Review; D011787:Quality of Health Care