In the United Kingdom, the process known in the United States as involuntary commitment is informally known as " detaining " or " sectioning ," using various sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 ( covering England and Wales ), the Mental Health ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1986 and the Mental Health ( Care and Treatment ) ( Scotland ) Act 2003 that provide its legal basis.

In England and Wales, approved mental health professionals have a lead role in coordinating Mental Health Act assessments, which they conduct in cooperation with usually two medical practitioners.

In England and Wales the Lunacy Acts 1890-1922 referred to lunatics, but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to " Person of Unsound Mind ", an expression which was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by mental illness.

Some public bodies still cover the area of the former county of Avon: for example, Avon Fire and Rescue Service, the Avon Coroner's District, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, the West of England Strategic Partnership, Intelligence West, and until 2006 the Avon Ambulance Service ( now merged with the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire ambulance services to form the Great Western Ambulance Service ).

In England, for DNR as for any medical treatment, by default only the patient can give informed consent, if they have capacity as defined under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 ; if they lack capacity relatives will often be asked for their opinion out of respect but it does not have hard legal force on the doctors ' decision.

of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments ; Mackintosh's Progress of Ethical Philosophy ; Cousin, Cours d ' histoire de la philosophie morale du XVIII ' siècle ; Whewell's Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ; A Bain's Mental and Moral Science ; Noah Porter's Appendix to the English translation of Ueberweg's History of Philosophy ; Sir Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Gentury, etc.

Notices of Price's ethical system occur in James Mackintosh's Progress of Ethical Philosophy, Jouffroy's Introduction to Ethics, William Whewell's History of Moral Philosophy in England ; Alexander Bain's Mental and Moral Sciences.

* Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, a mental health care provider in the south west of England.

David Wright, Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum, 1847-1901 ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001 )

Learning disabled offenders who are a continuing risk to others may be detained in learning disability hospitals ( or specialised community-based units with a similar regime, as the hospitals have mostly been closed ) as suffering from " Mental Impairment " in England and Wales, and without use of that term in Scotland.

* The National Mental Health Development Unit ( NMHDU ), England

An example is the Mental Health Act 1983 in England and Wales.

Knowlton was an officer of several freethinking societies in New England and New York, and founded “ The Friends of Mental Liberty ” in Greenfield in 1845.

* Mental Capacity Act 2005 ( England and Wales )

The first published report on the use of electroconvulsive therapy on patients in England was a collaboration between Gerald Fleming, the medical superintendent of Barnwood House and editor of the Journal of Mental Science, and Frederic Golla and William Grey Walter from the Burden Neurological Institute.

After his return from England at the end of 1992, Prof. Christos Pantelis worked at the Mental Health Research Institute and at Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital.

According to the Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development, 66, 000 women in England and Wales have experienced FGM, with 7, 000 girls at risk.

In practice, several government departments and Ministers have responsibilities that cover England alone, with devolved bodies having responsibility for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ( for example-the Department of Health ), or responsibilities that mainly focus on England ( such as the Department for Education ).

* July – Public Health Act establishes Boards of Health across England and Wales, the nation's first public health law, giving cities broad authority to build modern sanitary systems.

The stock-in-trade of Carry On humour was innuendo and the sending-up of British institutions and customs, such as the National Health Service ( Nurse, Doctor, Again Doctor, Matron ), the monarchy ( Henry ), the Empire ( Up the Khyber ), the military ( Carry On Sergeant, England ) and the trade unions ( At Your Convenience ).

* Health and diet in Elizabethan England

The UK Department of Health said that Grassley ’ s claims were “ just wrong ” and reiterated health service in England provides health care on the basis of clinical need regardless of age or ability to pay.

The National Health Service reports that the median admission wait time for elective inpatient treatment ( non-urgent hospital treatment ) in England at the end of August 2007, was just under 6 weeks, and 87. 5 per cent of patients were admitted within 13 weeks.

On June 18, 2007 Pfizer announced that it would move the Animal Health Research ( VMRD ) division based in Sandwich, England to Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Some 2, 688 voluntary and municipal hospitals in England and Wales were nationalised and came under Bevan's supervisory control as Health Minister.

Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity.

** National Health Service ( England )

The Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education is the largest provider of health, social care and education courses across the East of England with campuses based in Chelmsford, Cambridge and Peterborough.

The next step was a scale replica of the escalator, built with the same materials, which was constructed at the UK's Health and Safety Executive site at Buxton in England.

Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity.

The region is located right in the middle of the “ Health Belt ”, an area stretching from the Midwest to New England and down the East Coast that has had massive growth in the health care industry.

Other peer-reviewed journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Public Health, have done the same.

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

* 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

The Act of Settlement was, in many ways, the major cause of the union of Scotland with England and Wales to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

As a consequence, it was only in 1836 that England allowed suspects of felonies the right to have legal counsel ( the Prisoners ' Counsel Act 1836 ).

In England the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allowed such inferences to be made for the first time in England and Wales ( it was already possible in Scotland under the rule of criminative circumstances ).

In England a number of statutes on the subject have been passed, the chief being the Bastardy Act of the Parliament of 1845, and the Bastardy Laws Amendment Acts of 1872 and 1873.

* Alien Act of 1705 in England

In England and Wales the common law offence of being a common barator was abolished by section 13 ( 1 )( a ) of the Criminal Law Act 1967.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

Under the terms of the Bank of England Act 1998 ( which came into force on 1 June 1998 ), the bank's Monetary Policy Committee was given sole responsibility for setting interest rates to meet the Government's stated Retail Prices Index ( RPI ) inflation target of 2. 5 %.