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by Dr Martin Curtice and Dr Richard Symonds
Last updated: April 2019
The Human Rights Act (HRA) 1998 enacted most of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law in 2000.
Following its inception, it was anticipated that there would be widespread dissemination of information about the Act among patients, carers, doctors, healthcare workers and organisations. However, during the past decade this has unfortunately not been the case, and knowledge about the Act remains poor (House of Lords House of Commons 2007).
This module, the first in a two-part series*, aims to improve this knowledge base by demonstrating salient issues and principles from the HRA 1998 and how these can be used in daily clinical practice. It looks at:
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