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Monitoring the use of the Mental Health Act in 2009/10: an overview of CQC's findings and recommendations from our first annual report on our monitoring of how the Act is used
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health Act requires the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to report annually to Parliament on the work in monitoring the use of the Act in England. This publication is an overview of the findings and recommendations in the report of the first year of monitoring the use of the Act, from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010. It is based on findings from the visits that our Mental Health Act Commissioners and SOADs have made to services during the year. The report highlights the aims of the visits to improve the standards of care and treatment for detained patients. General findings suggest that there has been a fall in the number of informal patients who have been detained under the Act when they have tried to discharge themselves from hospital. There has been a marked reduction in the number of young people admitted to adult psychiatric wards under the Mental Health Act, especially of those under 16 years of age.
Death in detention monitoring: visit and monitoring report
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
In the year 2012-13, 78 deaths of individuals subject to compulsory treatment were notified to Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. During this period, a total of 6721 individuals were, at some point, subject to compulsory treatment. This paper gives an analysis of these deaths and also sets this number in context of the total number of individuals subject to the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and the higher mortality rate among individuals known to mental health services. The report includes examples of the deaths reported to the Commission and categorises them according to their causes, including death by natural causes, sudden death with no direct relation to mental health, sudden death with no explanation or possible relation to mental illness or learning disability (or treatment), suicide and death associated to delirium. The data show that individuals who are subject to compulsory treatment are no more likely to die than anyone else who is, or has been, treated for mental illness, learning disability or related conditions. While the death rate in general of individuals with a history of mental health admission is higher, it is not compulsory treatment that is associated with death: it is the presence of mental illness, learning disability and related conditions. (Edited publisher abstract)