{"title":"Mental Capacity Act 2005: balancing best interests with patient co-operation.","authors":"Richard Griffith","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0209","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Richard Griffith</b>, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers situations where acting in a person's best interests is dependent on their co-operation with treatment even though they lack mental capacity.</p>","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 10","pages":"524-526"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0209","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers situations where acting in a person's best interests is dependent on their co-operation with treatment even though they lack mental capacity.