Health and social care
Understand your rights to get and use health and adult social care services
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Clinical negligence
Understand how you can take action about poor or negligent treatment by doctors and health care workers
Dental treatment
Your rights when it comes to finding a dentist, dental charges, and complaints.
Mental health
Get to grips with what your rights are to refuse treatment, question a diagnosis, or the laws about being sectioned, and mental capacity.
NHS charges and prescriptions
Understand what NHS services you have to pay for and what help you can get with the costs.
Patients rights
Understand your rights to the correct treatment and care, and access to your records
Private health care
Understand your rights when receiving health care privately
Sexual and reproductive health
Understand your rights to health care services for contraception, pregnancy, and testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
I am looking for help with social care
Care assessements
Understand the rules about assessments for care to help meet your needs and how to get a care assessment.
Care at home
Find out about care, adaptations, and equipment to help you live independently at home.
Residential, nursing and sheltered care
Get to grips with the rules about your rights to the different options and paying for care.
Care complaints
How to complain about a care service
Can't find what you are looking for?
Getting free one-to-one advice about health and social care is not easy. All advice services are busy. We are here to help everyone who cannot get in at an advice service and cannot afford to pay for legal help.
We give you the knowledge, confidence, and skills you need to deal with the issue yourself, or with the help of friends or family. If you need more help than you can get from our advice guides and self-help tools, we explain how to try to find advice or a helpline.
