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The views of professionals and patients on compulsory removal from home to an institution (Section 47, National Assistance Act)
Author(s) -
Mayberry John F.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
health and social care in the community
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.984
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1365-2524
pISSN - 0966-0410
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2524.1996.tb00066.x
Subject(s) - section (typography) , institution , medicine , psychology , political science , law , business , advertising
A total of 548 solicitors, nurses and community physicians, together with 67 elderly people who had been admitted to hospital with acute medical conditions in the previous 6 months were sent a questionnaire about Section 47, National Assistance Act legislation and its role at the end of the twentieth century. Forty‐eight per cent of professionally qualified people and 54% of patients returned the questionnaire. Community physicians, consultant geriatricians, social workers and solicitors were most aware of Section 47; but only 27% of nurses and 17% of elderly patients had heard of it. Patients were most enthusiastic for retention of these powers of removal and social workers least so.