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Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2012/13; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to section 120D(3) of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Authors:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 94
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This is the fourth annual report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on its monitoring of the use of the Mental Health Act 1983. It collates findings of CQC’s specialist MHA visits, the concerns of people who use services and of professional stakeholders, and policy issues relevant to psychiatric detention in England. In 2012/13 people were detained or treated under the MHA more than 50,000 times; and community treatment orders were imposed more than 4,600 times. The total number of people who are subject to the MHA has risen by 12% in the last five years, with 17,000 people detained at the end of 2012/13. The report considers the extent to which mental health services are responsive to people’s needs; ways in which people are subject to restrictions; issues around consent to treatment; access to care during mental health crisis; and deaths of patients subject to the Act. While there is welcome for improvements in access to independent advocacy services, in helping people to draw up advance statements of preferences for care and treatment, the report notes that 27% of care plans showed no evidence of patient involvement. CQC expects there to be change in respect of promoting dignity and autonomy; promoting cultures that support therapeutic practices and reduce restraint and seclusion to a minimum; and being proactive in embedding learning from the deaths of people subject to the Act. (Edited publisher abstract)
Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2012/13: summary
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This summary of the main report for 2012-13 outlines findings on the extent to which mental health services are responsive to people’s needs; ways in which people are subject to restrictions; issues around consent to treatment; access to care during a mental health crisis; and deaths of patients subject to the Act. It presents facts and figures, and notes areas of improvement and where the Care Quality Commission (CQC) expects to see change. (Original abstract)
Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2011/12: presented to Parliament ... pursuant to section 120D(3) of the Mental Health Act 1983: summary
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This is the summary of the third annual report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on its monitoring of the use of the Mental Health Act 1983. Mental health is a major issue for this country. Nearly a quarter (23%) of the total burden of disease in the UK is attributable to mental disorder, compared to 16% for cancer and 16% for heart disease. Mental disorder has a broad range of impacts across health, education, work and criminal justice as well as links with health risk behaviour and associated premature mortality. The Government’s consultation on the NHS Constitution proposes amending the first guiding principle on the purpose of the NHS to explicitly include mental as well as physical health. The mid-term review, published in January 2013, includes improving the treatment and care of people with mental illness in its four key priorities for health and care. Overall, some hospitals and wards are doing a very good job in treating patients with dignity and respect. CQC found some overall improvement but most of the concerns highlighted in previous reports remain. There is a significant gap between the realities CQC is observing in practice and the ambitions of the national mental health policy. CQC is concerned that cultures may persist where control and containment are prioritised over the treatment and support of individuals.
Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2011/12: presented to Parliament ... pursuant to section 120D(3) of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 108
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This is the third annual report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on its monitoring of the use of the Mental Health Act 1983. Mental health is a major issue for this country. Nearly a quarter (23%) of the total burden of disease in the UK is attributable to mental disorder, compared to 16% for cancer and 16% for heart disease. Mental disorder has a broad range of impacts across health, education, work and criminal justice as well as links with health risk behaviour and associated premature mortality. The Government’s consultation on the NHS Constitution proposes amending the first guiding principle on the purpose of the NHS to explicitly include mental as well as physical health. The mid-term review, published in January 2013, includes improving the treatment and care of people with mental illness in its four key priorities for health and care. Overall, some hospitals and wards are doing a very good job in treating patients with dignity and respect. CQC found some overall improvement but most of the concerns highlighted in previous reports remain. There is a significant gap between the realities CQC is observing in practice and the ambitions of the national mental health policy. CQC is concerned that cultures may persist where control and containment are prioritised over the treatment and support of individuals.
Mental health policy implementation guide: adult acute inpatient care provision
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Acute inpatient care is a core and integral component of the National Service Framework for Mental Health to which all the NSF standards are relevant. Improving adult acute inpatient care and its connections and integration with the other key elements of the whole system of care in its local context is a priority NSF implementation target. Acute inpatient care should already be a designated high priority by any definition prioritising the needs of people with serious mental illness. It is usually only when people are most seriously ill that they are admitted to an acute care ward. Inpatient provision is still the single element on which we spend the greatest proportion of the adult mental health budget and employ the greatest number of staff.
Lambeth joint mental health strategy: services for adults with mental health problems
- Author:
- LAMBETH. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Lambeth. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This joint strategy for adults with mental health problems was launched in April 02. The strategy sets out a clear direction for the continuing development and improvement of mental health services in Lambeth and was developed in partnership by statutory, voluntary and user organisations. The strategy is set in the context of the National Service Framework for Mental Health, the NHS Plan and the Local Modernisation Review.
Ring their bell
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, November 2002, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Looks at standard three of the National Service Framework for Mental Health which says that anyone with a 'common' mental health problems should be able to make contact around the clock with local services and get 'adequate' care. Looks at how NHS Direct and the voluntary sector have responded to this.
Standard two primary care
- Author:
- PROSSER Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(8), April 2001, pp.258-259.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
In the second of a series of articles on the National Service Framework, this article describes how one trust's mental health services have worked with local primary health care services towards achieving standard two.
Time to design upwards in mental health services for older people
- Author:
- GOSS Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 7(2), December 2000, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Four main areas of working need improvement if services for older people with mental health needs are to match the aspirations of the National Service Framework for Older People and the NHS plan. The author describes what needs to be done and says that in the future we should be designing services from recipient upwards.
Inpatient care of mentally ill people in prison: results of a year's programme of semistructured inspections
- Authors:
- REED John L., LYNE Maggi
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 15.4.00, 2000, pp.1031-1034.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Reports on research which investigates the facilities for inpatient care of mentally disordered people in prison. Main outcomes measures used were appraisals of quality of care against published standards. Results found that the quality of services for mentally ill prisoners fell far below the standards in the NHS. Argues that the present policy dividing inpatient care of mentally disordered prisoners between the prison service and the NHS needs reconsideration.