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Human Rights in Healthcare - a Framework for Local Action

Document type:

Guidance
Author:

Department of Health
Published date:

7 October 2008
Publication format:

A4
Product number:

289869 (framework), 289902 (introduction)
Gateway reference:

10482
Pages:

78
Supersedes/replaces:

Human Rights in Healthcare - A Framework for Local Action
Copyright holder:

Crown

The Department of Health, the British Institute of Human Rights and 5 NHS Trusts have worked in conjunction to produce this framework to assist NHS trusts to develop and apply human rights based approaches (HRBAs) in their organisations to improve service design and delivery.

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