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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.
Intensive, not intrusive: our visits and telephone interviews with individuals and carers who have had contact with Intensive Home Treatment Services and the service providers
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
For several years, there has been a move away from hospital-based care and treatment for people with mental illness, learning disability and related conditions. Intensive home treatment (IHT) is an alternative to hospital admission. This report presents the findings of visits and telephone interviews from October 2011 to February 2012 with individuals who had received IHT and their carers in order to obtain their views of the service. The study covered both adult services and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 106 individuals, 25 carers and 23 service managers. The findings showed an overwhelmingly positive view of IHT, with the vast majority of the individuals and careers highly valuing the service. Local service managers reported that the availability of IHT has reduced the need for hospital admission. There is no overall consistent model of IHT across Scotland. While it is unrealistic to expect a ‘one size fits all’ model for intensive home treatment, the report concludes that all NHS Boards should ensure that they have services to assess and support people at home during times of mental health crises. A number of key messages and recommendations are provided to help to develop further this model of service.
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)