Consider the duty of care possibly owed by the nurse of an NHS trust and discuss whether and on what grounds you think a duty would be owed in the following circumstances: a. an informal psychiatric...

Consider the duty of care possibly owed by the nurse of an NHS trust and discuss whether and on what grounds you think a duty would be owed in the following circumstances: a. an informal psychiatric patient who wanders away from the hospital and damages cars in the vicinity of the hospital b. a patient detained under the Mental Health Act who does likewise c. a patient in the A&E department who, after an attempted suicide, insists on taking his own discharge and is shortly afterwards found dead on a railway line d. a doctor in a cinema who gives a person having a cardiac arrest the wrong treatment e a community nurse who is caring for a neighbour, not on her list, and who accidentally leaves the door open. The neighbour is mugged and the house burgled.