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Uproar over missing links
- Author:
- SHEPARD Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 28.08.08, 2008, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Most changes brought in under the Mental Health Act 2007 start taking affect in November. However the section ensuring the rights of detained patients to independent mental health advocacy services will not be introduced until April 2009. The author reports on campaigners frustration by the delay.
Understanding Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) for people who use services
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 5 minutes 25 seconds
- Place of publication:
- London
Film providing a simple but authoritative overview of qualifying patients' right to independent mental health advocacy. It also covers how advocates can help and what the benefits are for people who use services. Key messages include: that IMHA is a free services; IMHAS are independent; they help you decide what you want. Actors are used in some of the scenes in the film. (Edited publisher abstract)
Violence: managing disturbed/violent behaviour; understanding NICE guidance; information for service users, their advocates, families and carers, and the public
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. National Institute for Clinical Excellence
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline makes recommendations on the short-term management of disturbed/violent behaviour in adult in-patient psychiatric settings and emergency departments. This management takes place within a multi-faceted legal framework, compliance with which is a core measure of quality and good practice. Failure to act in accordance with the guideline may not only be a failure to act in accordance with best practice, but in some circumstances may have legal consequences. For example, any intervention used must be a reasonable and proportionate response to the risk it seeks to address. [NICE guideline CG25 has now been replaced by NG10 Violence and aggression: short-term management in mental health, health and community settings].
Patients' advocacy: the development of a service at the State Hospital Carstairs Scotland
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Jacqueline M., MacPHERSON Kirstine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(6), December 2001, pp.589-596.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article describes the development of an advocacy service and explores the issues involved in advocacy in a maximum secure environment. Using a model of citizen advocacy the service was started in September 1997. Patient involvement throughout the hospital was high with approximately 88% of patients having some contact with the service by January 2000. Most of the issues raised by patients are similar to those in any mental health advocacy project. Entrapment is a particular issue for some patients. Safety and security issues influence every aspect of the service. This ranges from advocates having to do more for patients rather than enable them to do things for themselves (e.g. make telephone calls) to the principle of the patients' wishes being paramount being tempered by security demands.
From petitions to professionals
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 107, January 2001, p.10.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Outlines a brief history of mental health advocacy in the UK.
Taking instructions
- Author:
- KELLEY Nancy
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 107, January 2001, p.11.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The author defines and defends independent mental health advocacy.
Legal support for black patients
- Author:
- INYAMA Chinyere
- Journal article citation:
- Diverse Minds Magazine, 3, May 1999, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- MIND
This is the first of a two part review of legal support of patients under the Mental Health Act. This article discusses the solicitor's role in supporting patients detained under the current Mental Health Act 1983.
Review of older people's services in NHS Ayrshire and Arran
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. Quality Improvement Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The report found that compliance with the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Older People’s Quality Indicators is variable and there is evidence of progress towards full compliance in some areas. The inequity of access to services and the need to improve liaison with the different services between North and South Ayrshire should be addressed. The key issuesinclude: input to communities and community hospitals; memory clinics; ortho-geriatric care; liaison with old age psychiatry; and a review of consultant job plans. Consultant geriatricians should be involved in the assessment of all patients being considered for community care assessment to minimise inappropriate placements and reduce the number of moves an individual patient makes. The multi-agency strategy for older people should have an implementation plan with priorities for investment identified and dates for implementation. It should also address the issues raised in this report such as unsuitable accommodation, lack of advocacy services and a review of continuing care, respite and day hospital provision. Bed management issues should be addressed to reduce the number of patient moves.This should include the triage of patients in medical admissions units and the review of beds for continuing care patients in wards shared with those patients whose discharge is delayed. There is a need to audit compliance with the resuscitation policy, the prescribing of ‘as required’ medicines and implementation of the Adults with Incapacity Act.
Providing mental health advocacy in a patient-centered NHS
- Author:
- KINTON Mat
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(2), June 2002, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Patient advocacy is seen by the government as tied into a structure aimed at facilitating patient and public involvement in the NHS. This article argues that mental health advocates and their commissioning bodies may have to struggle to maintain a meaningful definition of their service in the face of competing advocacy schemes and expectations of service monitoring.
Gay advocacy
- Author:
- MANN Polly
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 107, January 2001, p.12.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Explains why gay-specific advocacy is needed in mental health.