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Useful websites The Department of Healthâs website includes an âeasy read versionâ of the leaï¬et explaining the draft Mental Health Bill prepared for people with learning difï¬culties. This is available at: www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/ PublicationsLegislation/PublicationsLegislationArticle/fs/e n?CONTENT_ID=4088907&chk=mo1hDq. This email address would challenge even the most able typist, however, the document is also available, along with other explanatory papers, via www.dh.gov.uk by following the âPublicationsâ links. Itâs a huge website that is not easy to navigate. A valuable resource (and a well-designed website) for the friends, relatives and carers of people requiring mental health care, and for service users themselves, is provided by www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk. The site explains the meanings of the main diagnoses, and has carersâ own stories in relation to (for example) schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism and eating disorders. Set up by mental health charity Rethink, the Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley Trust, it also has links to user/carer research. A particularly novel and valuable feature is an âask the pharmacistâ facility. It is stressed that this is for use in non-urgent cases. It gives carers and patients the opportunity to ask questions about their medication from a relatively objective source, and previous answers are available for visitors to the
The Journal of Adult Protection – Pier Professional
Published: Dec 1, 2005
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