Mental Capacity Act 2005: advanced decisions to refuse treatment.
In the fourth of a series of articles on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Richard Griffith and Cassam Tengnah consider the impact on district nurse practice of the introduction of advanced decisions refusing treatment that will allow a person to refuse even life sustaining treatment in incapacity.
Griffith
Richard
R
School of Health Science, Swansea University. richard.griffith@swan.ac.uk
Tengnah
Cassam
C
D016223:Advance Directives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003657:Decision Making; D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016312:Treatment Refusal / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom