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An information leaflet for unsentenced prisoners who have been transferred to hospital. It includes information about why you are in hospital, what a restriction direction is, how long you will be there and what happens if you have to go back to court.
This leaflet has been produced to provide information to people who are already a patient and are being detained. It includes information about why you cannot leave hospital, how long you could be there, what will happen next and your rights to appeal.
This leaflet has been produced to provide information to people who are already a patient and are being detained. It includes information about why you cannot leave hospital, how long you could be there, what will happen next and your rights to appeal.
This leaflet has been produced to provide information to people about nurses' power to detain a person being treated for mental disorder as a hospital in-patient. It includes information about why you cannot leave hospital, how long you can be kept there and what will happen during this time.
This leaflet has been produced to provide information to people about nurses' power to detain a person being treated for mental disorder as a hospital in-patient. It includes information about why you cannot leave hospital, how long you can be kept there and what will happen during this time.
This leaflet has been produces to provide people who their nearest relative will be under the Mental Health Act 1983.
Information from the Royal College of Psychiatrists for anyone who wants to know more about self-harm, particularly anyone who is harming themselves, or feels that they might. It may also be helpful for friends and families.
This booklet is for people who deliberately harm themselves and are unhappy about it. It is also for family and friends who may have difficulty understanding this behaviour. People who have experience of harming themselves have contributed to the writing of this booklet. It offers self help advice. However, anyone who self-harms should also see their GP (Family Doctor).
This links to information produced by Young Minds about self-harm. It includes information for young people about what self-harm is and what you can do about self-harm.
Information produced by NICE about their quality standard 14. This quality standard covers improving the experience of people using adult NHS mental health services. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
