Psychiatric & Healthcare law Course

Psychiatric & Healthcare law Course is organized by Evidence Based Sweden AB, Physicians' Institute for Professional Development in Healthcare / Lakarnas institut for professionell utveckling i sjukvarden (LIPUS) and will be held from Jan 21 - 23, 2026 at Elite Hotel Marina Plaza, Helsingborg, Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden.

Description:
The course has been developed to meet the National Board of Health and Welfare's interim goals regarding healthcare and psychiatric law for various BT & ST educations and to meet the need for further training in the subject for specialists.
Doctors in general and ST doctors in psychiatry in particular must have a good knowledge of the medical law field and be able to apply the rules correctly. The purpose of the legislation is primarily to protect patient safety.
Within the framework of coercive measures (LPT/LRV), there are knowledge gaps that are addressed during the course.
There are also major knowledge gaps about various areas, such as children who are in harm's way, weapons and driver's license possession.
The participant will be updated on important news and changes, such as:
Police handling LPT-LRV-LVM: handling between healthcare facilities after admission.

Overall goals:
The training will help future specialists gain an overall picture of the regulations that govern healthcare as well as compulsory care legislation and its clinical application in everyday work.

Results for the participant
After the course, the doctor should be able to describe in general terms:

• The legal system; statutes, interpretations, applications and the risk of legal errors
• Different legal disciplines and types of liability (criminal law, civil law, public law)
• Human rights and psychiatry based on the roles of the patient and the doctor.
• The Health and Medical Services Act, ethics, morality and treatment in health and medical services
• The Patient Safety Act, the participation of relatives in the patient's care and treatment
• ??The Patient Act
• The Patient Data Act
• Public protection, forensic psychiatric examination

and be able to:

• Explain the concept of serious mental disorder and its meaning within LPT versus LRV.
• Summarize the compulsory legislation LPT, LRV, LVM and LVU.
• Write correct care certificates, submissions and forms.
• Explain the legal process, i.e. organization, actors and time aspects regarding compulsory care, detention, admission decisions.
• Explain the conditions for closed and open forensic psychiatric care.
• Give examples of general prohibitions at the operational level (relevant case discussions from the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Administrative Court)
• Understand and explain the meaning of the obligation to report when a child is harmed, driving licenses, possession of firearms, etc.