Supervision or coercion?

Article Abstract:

The Community Psychiatric Nurses' Assn. (CPNA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) maintain that the new powers of supervision of patients with mental illness in the community are fraught with problems for nurses as well as patients. The Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act allows conditions to be attached to the aftercare plans of patients discharged from hospital, and gives supervisors powers to physically 'take and convey' patients who do not comply. The CPNA and RCN see these powers as giving supervisors a potential form of control and coercion over a patient.

Laws, regulations and rules, Powers and duties, Psychiatric personnel, Mental health personnel, Ex-mental patients, Former mental patients

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No sanctuary from HIV funding cuts

Article Abstract:

The market for HIV/AIDS services in the UK has become increasingly competitive recently, and this is putting even some large facilities under considerable financial pressure. The Sanctuary in Bournemouth, one of the largest AIDS hospices in Europe, has already been forced to shut down, and London Lighthouse is also facing severe financial problems, with funding from its main purchaser having been cut by 200,000 pounds sterling in 1996. It is now possible that specialist HIV/AIDS units across the country will be in danger.

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Growing pains

Article Abstract:

Counsellors who work with young people with AIDS and HIV find that families do not know whether to tell other people that their child has AIDS incase they are ostracized. Some children make memory boxes with special things inside and families are given help to prepare them for the child's death. Children are also helped to prepare for the death of a parent from AIDS because there is still a stigma attached to having the disease. Most families find a family member to look after the children and very few need to be adopted.

Children, AIDS (Disease) in children, Pediatric AIDS (Disease), Children of AIDS patients

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