Safeguarding

Safeguarding Patients 141
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74 36 The Mental Health Trusts, together
with the Primary Care Trusts, should
draw up and distribute patient
information leaflets, so that patients
referred by their General Practitioners
to the care of a consultant psychiatrist
can better understand what to expect,
and the circumstances if any in which
the patient can expect to receive any
physical examination or treatment from
the psychiatrist. This leaflet information
should include the following topics:
a. when the patient can expect a
physical examination by the
psychiatrist;
b. a description of boundaries, and
what is and what is not acceptable
behaviour by the psychiatrist;
c. what the patient is likely to expect in
the course of talking therapies (for
example, questions and inquiries
which some may consider too
intrusive and intimate);
d. what, if anything, is expected of the
patient;
e. the availability of trained
chaperones and, if installed, the use
of virtual chaperones
f. the contact details of the person to
whom they may turn in confidence
to discuss any issue that may give
them concern before, during and
after treatment.
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