Several questions remain unanswered regarding the extent to which the principles and practices of patient-centered care are achievable in the context of a forensic mental health hospital. This study examined patient-centered care from the perspectives of patients and providers in a forensic mental health hospital. Patient-centered care was assessed using several measures of complementary constr...

The ethical aspects of biobanks and forensic DNA databases are often treated as separate issues. As a reflection of this, public participation, or the involvement of citizens in genetic databases, has been approached differently in the fields of forensics and medicine. This paper aims to cross the boundaries between medicine and forensics by exploring the flows between the ethical issues presen...

Introduction Presentation of the HoNOS-Secure French Version, an Outcome Measure for Users of Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services Eytan A*1, Golay D2, Della Polla S2, Hofer F2, Sillitti F2 and Gex-Fabry M3 1Division of General Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland 2Division of Penitentiary Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland 3Division of Ps...

The principal reform accomplished by Part XX.1 was the creation of a system of forensic Review Boards in each province. The Boards assumed the role previously played by provincial Cabinets in determining the custodial status of forensic patients. Part XX.1 established the Review Boards as quasi-judicial tribunals which would afford all parties, including the accused, a full panoply of procedura...

Healthcare service is a product of a team effort. From doctors to nurses, caregivers to administrative personnel working in the hospital, all are parts of this team. Nurses who work in emergency services, intensive care units, inpatient services and even in the outpatient services are the first healthcare professionals who face victims and offenders [1]. Since there is no job description for fo...

AIM To consider ethical propositions relating to nursing in UK forensic settings. BACKGROUND A previous paper considered behavioural programmes with a Canadian forensic population. METHOD Some literature and personal reflections are presented. RESULTS Whilst some similarities with the nature of Canadian forensic settings are identified, the UK is developing its' own cognitive-behavioural ...

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan the law relating to people who are mentally ill, until 2001, was set out by the Lunacy Act of 1912, which was inherited from the British colonial occupiers. In 2001 the Mental Health Ordinance 2001 took its place but only for this federal law to be superseded in April 2010 with the 18th constitutional amendment. As part of that amendment, provinces have becom...