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Revealed: MPs' attitudes to mental health and the Mental Health Bill
- Author:
- RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report draws on a survey of English MPs attitudes to Mental Health and the Mental Health Bill which was conducted in May 2006. The survey was complete by 72 English MPs (28% Conservative, 54% Labour and 9% Liberal Democrats). Key findings include: 77% of MPs think the Bill should be focused on improving service provision; 90% of MPs said constituents raise concerns about local mental health services – but only 6% mention public safety; 10% of MPs have personally experienced mental illness. The more personal experience MPs have of mental illness, the more likely it is that they opposed the draft Mental Health Bill.
Understanding treatment without consent: an analysis of the work of the Mental Health Act Commission
- Editors:
- SHAW Ian, MIDDLETON High, COHEN Jeffrey, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 130p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
The authors examine the work of the Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC), established to ensure the care and rights of people subjected to the various sections of the 1983 Mental Health Act. The book emerges from a Department of Health funded research project, which analysed the data held by the MHAC and informed the government's review of the Mental Health Act. The authors include that analysis and other issues that arose from the project in the pages of this text, but their aim is to go beyond that research project, and to offer a broader exploration of mental health provision in both historical and contemporary contexts, discussing whether mental health reforms have learned the lessons of history. The book is designed to complement earlier work on treatment without consent by Phil Fennell, by providing a more policy-oriented account of mental health law and regulation in the context of health service modernization, discussing contemporary issues facing the MHAC and looking at its future role and, in particular, its planned merger with the Health Care commission in 2008.
The new Mental Health Act: an easy read guide
- Author:
- SCOTTISH CONSORTIUM FOR LEARNING DISABILITY
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 139p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
An easy read guide to the mental health act, a new law which says how you can be treated if you have a mental disorder, and also says what your rights are, is presented.
Triumph for age-appropriate care
- Author:
- WALLACE Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 18.07.07, 2007, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
The Mental Health Bill has become law and stipulates that children should not be placed on adult wards. The author reports on how professionals are likely to implement the new requirement.
Legislative scrutiny: Mental Health Bill: fourth report of session 2006-07: report, together with formal minutes and appendices
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 86p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report by the joint committee on human rights warned people who do not have a mental illness could be sectioned despite posing no risk to others or themselves. MPs and peers argued the mental health bill, which has already had one defeat in the House of Lords, is flawed because the government’s proposed legal definition of illness is too wide. It warned people with conditions such as gender dysphoria - uncertainty about their gender – or transsexuals could be detained under the act. The bill proposes to change the grounds for a person's detention from 'a true mental disorder' to 'any disorder or disability of mind'. This could result in discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and sexual identity. The report also raised concern that a duty nurse or social worker could be enough to extend someone's detention.
Mental Health Bill (HL): January 2007
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Lords
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 131p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Bill is to Amend the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in relation to mentally disordered persons; and for connected purposes.
Mental health law reform: the impact on children and young people in Northern Ireland
- Author:
- NIWA Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 13(4), October 2007, pp.339-349.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Bamford Review of Mental Health and Learning Disability (Northern Ireland) was established in October 2002 to examine all aspects of the law, policy and provisions that affect people with mental health needs or a learning disability in Northern Ireland. Its report 'A comprehensive legislative framework', which deals with the reform of law in this area, proposes significant change to mental health law, which is largely welcome. This article outlines some of those key changes and preliminary thoughts regarding the impact of some of the specific proposals on children and young people with mental health problems in Northern Ireland, highlighting those areas that warrant particular attention. Particular comment is made on current legislation and concerns regarding the funding and provision of child and adolescent services in Northern Ireland. Proposals in the Framework for the introduction of capacity legislation and the impact of such on children and young people with mental health problems are examined in light of recent legislative changes in Great Britain. Comment is also made on the need for significant changes in the law and policy regarding the provision of services and support to those children and young people with a personality disorder.
Mental capacity in psychiatric patients: systematic review
- Authors:
- OKAI David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 191(10), October 2007, pp.291-297.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Mental capacity is central to legal and ethical debates on the use of compulsion in psychiatry. The aim was to describe the clinical epidemiology of mental incapacity in patients with psychiatric disorders, including interrater reliability of assessments, frequency in the psychiatric population and associations of mental incapacity. Cross-sectional studies of capacity to consent to treatment for psychiatric patients were systematically reviewed from Medline, EMBASE and PsycInfo databases. Information on the reliability of assessments, frequency and associations of mental incapacity was extracted. Out of 37 papers reviewed, 29 different capacity assessment tools were identified. Studies were highly heterogeneous in their measurement and definitions of capacity. Interrater reliabilities between tools were high. Studies indicate incapacity is common (median 29%) but the majority of psychiatric in-patients are capable of making treatment decisions. Psychosis, severity of symptoms, involuntary admission and treatment refusal were the strongest risk factors for incapacity. Mental capacity can be reliably assessed. The majority of psychiatric in-patients have capacity, and socio-demographic variables do not have a major impact but clinical ones do.
The Mental Health Bill 2006: what effect on children?
- Author:
- DALY Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 234, March 2007, pp.22-25.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
The main aim of the Mental Health Bill is to update the Mental Health Act 1983 to ensure that people with serious mental health disorders can be treated, whether or not they consent, in order to prevent them from harming themselves or others. This article traces the history of the Bill and as it passes from the House of Lords into the Commons looks at some of the issues that have been raised by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the National Children's Bureau in its Child Impact Statement and YoungMinds, in relation to its impact on human rights in general and children in particular.
Mental Health Act code of practice: what do you think?
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This version of the consultation document invites users' comments on the draft revised Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice (in the light of the Mental Health Act 2007). The Code provides guidance to registered medical practitioners (“doctors”), approved clinicians, managers and staff of hospitals and approved mental health practitioners (who have defined responsibilities under the provisions of the Act), on how they should proceed when undertaking duties under the Act. It should also be considered by others working in health and social services (including the independent and voluntary sectors).