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Online news - 11 February 2011
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Doctors and nurses should face prosecution for wilful neglect

Doctors, nurses and managers who wilfully neglect any patient should be liable for prosecution, say ethicists from the University of Manchester’s Centre for Social Ethics and Policy in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Healthcare professionals in England can only face criminal charges if a patient dies as a result of a serious error. But intolerable suffering of vulnerable people is no less reprehensible, say the authors. Under current mental health legislation, healthcare professionals and managers can be charged with wilful neglect, and this should apply to all categories of patient, they said.

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