Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Mersey Care NHS Trust

Email: lisa.williams@merseycare.nhs.uk

Declaration of interests: None

Dr Williams has a long standing interest in the ethics of consent and advance decision-making. Her MSc dissertation was on the ethics of non-therapeutic research on cognitively impaired adults.

Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Merseycare NHS Trust

Email: john.rigby@merseycare.nhs.uk 

Declaration of interests: None

Dr Rigby has published on schizophrenia, dementia and the Mental Health Act.