United Kingdom

• Mind and Rethink are also two charitable (non-profits) who do advocacy work
• Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry
• Psychiatry in Crisis - "Bolam" no longer covers Risk: Removing Bolam’s cover from assessing RISK deepens our Crisis in Psychiatry, Dr. Bob Johnson, June, 2015.
• Occupy the Madness, by Hugh Middleton, at Tent City, St. Pauls, London. January 15th 2012.
• Wessex Therapy/Mick Bramham
• The Wellbeing Foundation
• GPs have been urged to review all patients with dementia taking antipsychotic drugs to reduce potential harm from inappropriate prescribing, by Stephen Robinson, GP Magazine, (UK) June 9, 2011.
• Submission by the European Network of (ex) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry [ENUSP ] in response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights' request for evidence relating to the The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 24 October 2008
• APRIL (Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link)
• RTE News Video Clip: "Unhealthy Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry"
• In Future Perfect mental health users envision a mental health system without hospitals.
• Informed Consent in Britain
  The Future of Informed Consent in British Common Law, By Murray Earle, European Journal of Health Law 6: 235-248, 1999.
  • Legal standard of care: a shift from the traditional Bolam test, by Ash and Jo Samanta, Clinical Medicine Vol 3 No 5 September/October 2003.
  • Reference Guide to Consent for Examination or Treatment, Department of Health, 2001.

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