New NHS Constitution could cause conflict with professional guidance on patient confidentiality and the Mental Capacity Act
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ben Mearns
- Source
- BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 345
- Subject
- Terminal Care
Constitution
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
General Medicine
humanities
Patient confidentiality
State (polity)
Law
Mental capacity
Care pathway
Critical Pathways
Medicine
Humans
business
media_common
- Language
- ISSN
- 1756-1833
Spence does a good job in defending the Liverpool care pathway, although he does say that the pathway must be used “with the consent of all involved.”1 Marsden in his article in the Telegraph entitled “Families win new rights over death pathway patients” quotes the secretary of state for health as saying that “patients and their families have a basic …