Clinical Case Database / Category: Patient Management
Capacity: everyone's business
Publication details
Dr Devender, Dr Glyn Torne
Foundation Years Journal, volume 5, issue 10, p.19 (123Doc Education, London, December 2011)
Abstract
In an evolving complex healthcare system, assessment of capacity is increasingly becoming central and paramount in everyday clinical practice and is a core competency for foundation year doctors. Capacity is a legal concept. Given the fact that in general and psychiatric hospitals around 30% of patients may lack capacity, it is everyone's business, in everyday clinical practice to keep themselves abreast with the challenges and complexities involved in the assessment of capacity.
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Authors
Dr Devender
Speciality Doctor in Psychiatry
dsyadav@doctors.org.uk
Dr Glyn Torne
Foundation Year 1 Doctor
References
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About the Clinical Cases Database
The Foundation Years Clinical Cases Database is a selection of 600 peer-reviewed clinical cases in the field of patient safety and clinical practice, specifically focused on the clinical information needs of junior doctors, based around the Foundation Year Curriculum programme (MMC). The cases have been chosen to align with the Foundation Year Curriculum.
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