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Legal and contractual implications of the informal admission of psychiatric patients

Adult Mental Health Unit, Lambeth Healthcare NHS Trust, 108 Landor Road, Stockwell, London SW9 9NT

The lack of official consideration of the legal and contractual implications of the informal admission of psychiatric patients has resulted in a situation in which individual hospitals and mental nursing homes have generated their own mistaken assumptions about the nature of this form of admission, often to the detriment of patients.