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Human rights in mental health services: good practice guide
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 74
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This guide explains how and where human rights impact on the provision of mental health care and how staff can best ensure that the key rights are respected. It is aimed at staff in hospital and community teams in Scotland and has been written in consultation with mental health care practitioners, users of services, and patients’ relatives who have direct experience of adult acute settings. It looks at each of the rights set out in the Rights in Mind pathway to patients’ rights in mental health services. There is a section for each stage, covering patient’s rights in the community, hospital admission, hospital care, and hospital discharge. The guide also sets out overarching rights that apply across all of these stages. Short case studies are included to illustrate different scenarios. The guide can be used both as a reference guide and as an improvement resource to help staff reflect on their policies and practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Adult acute themed visit report: visit and monitoring report
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 61
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report details findings from visits to 47 mental health admission wards providing care to adults across Scotland, which were conducted to find out whether people receiving care felt their rights were being respected, identify any good practice and provide recommendations for practice. The visits reviewed the care of 323 patients and spoke to 41 carers and hospital staff. The report summarises key findings in the areas of: hospital admission, feeling safe, care planning, recovery, peer support, discharge planning, activities, consent to treatment and advance statements. The report found positive and negative findings. It identifies improvements in the physical environment, found wards were taking a more recovery-focused approach, and also found more peer support workers in wards since the last themed visit. However, the report also identifies a number of areas for improvement. These included: level of safety, with almost one in five patients spoken to reporting feeling unsafe; access to activities, with fewer than half of patients spoken to said they had the opportunity to exercise; and delays in accessing social work services affecting discharge planning. A series of recommendations are included. (Edited publisher abstract)
LGBT inclusive mental health service: a guide for health and social care professionals
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This guide aims to increase awareness of LGBT rights amongst mental health professionals and address inequalities in the support and treatment of LGBT people across mental health services. The guide, co-produced with community initiative LGBT Health and Wellbeing, aims to help health and social care services to deliver more person-centred care and support and provides recommendations for making services more accessible and LGBT-friendly. The recommendations cover actions mental health professionals can take, such as avoiding making assumptions about people’s gender or sexuality or asking inappropriate questions; acknowledging LGBT partners and carers. It also looks at how of the service environment, attitudes of staff and policies and procedures can help improve access to services. Details of organisations that can provide additional information and advice are also included. (Edited publisher abstract)