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The Mental Health (Wales) Measure
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The Mental Health (Wales) Measure has been laid before the National Assembly for Wales, and if enacted will make a number of important changes to the legislative arrangements in respect of the assessment and treatment of people with mental health problems. The purpose of this briefing sheet is to provide general information about those changes, explain how interested parties can become involved in shaping the legislation, and explain how the Welsh Assembly Government intends that the legislation will be implemented. The Measure has five broad policy intentions. The first is to provide assessment of a person’s mental health and, where appropriate, provide treatment for their mental ill-health within primary care. The second is to create statutory requirements around care and treatment planning and care coordination for all persons receiving care and treatment with secondary mental health services. The third is to require secondary mental health services to have in place arrangements to ensure the provision of timely access to assessment for previous service users. The fourth is to extend the group of qualifying patients under the Mental Health Act 1983 entitled to receive support from an Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA), and the final intention is to enable all patients receiving care and treatment for mental health problems in hospital to have access to independent and specialist mental health advocacy.
Guidance on nominating a consultee for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent: issued by the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers in accordance with section 32(3) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
The Welsh Ministers here publish guidance on how to identify an appropriate consultee for the purposes of section 32 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The guidance indicates how researchers should go about identifying an appropriate person to consult when they wish to carry out research which involves someone who lacks capacity to consent to take part.