The Rights of Staff in the Treatment of the Mentally Ill

If we accept the premise that adequate health care is the right ofevery individual, itfollows that the provider of health care must, as a basic right, have the opportunity and the conditions necessary to provide such care. The author defines and describes a set ofstaff rights that bear directly on tile treatment process. Rights of staff include having sufficient resources to provide ade-quate care, participating in the allocation of resources and the setting of priorities, being accountablefor clinical matters to the highest governing authority, having clinical practice reviewed by peers, and practicing without excessive and unnecessary regulation.