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How safe are places of safety?
- Author:
- SYMINGTON Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2008, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, the police may take a person believed to be suffering from a mental disorders and to be in immediate need of care or control to a 'place of safety'. New national guidelines state that better standards are needed in Mental Health Act places of safety. This article discusses the Section 136 review - which contained user and carer perspectives - and highlights the key recommendations.
Advocacy: a code of practice
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive. Mental Health Task Force Users Group
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive. Mental H
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 33p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Code developed using the views of users of mental health services. Draws together principles and guidelines for good practice in user group participation, in both unit and community-based users' councils and in peer advocacy who use mental health services.
Mental health and drugs: a drug worker's guide to working with service users who have a mental illness
- Author:
- VOSE Colin
- Publisher:
- HIT
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
This book is for practitioners who work in drug and alcohol services or other settings such as health, social care and criminal justice. It gives an overview of the link between drug misuse and mental health. The booklet covers the following topics: mental health problems; commonly prescribed medication for mental health; mental health services - what do they do?; drug use and mental health - dual diagnosis; roles of the drug worker - responding to drugs and mental health issues; and summaries of mental health law, standards and guidance.
Detained: SSI of compulsory mental health admissions; February 2001
- Author:
- WATSON Alan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this inspection was to inspect and report on the service received by, and outcomes for, users who are compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act. It took place at a time when the Mental Health Act was under review, and the Government had published its new strategy for mental health. The strategy was followed by a National Service Framework for Mental Health, which sets standards for all agencies to achieve greater consistency across the country. During the inspection information was gathered from assessments of almost one thousand people under the Mental Health Act. It took place at a time when mental health services were being re-assessed in the light of the new national standards for mental health and this report is timely in helping local councils to evaluate services.
Primary care mental health
- Author:
- COHEN Alan
- Publisher:
- Emap Public Sector Management
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 22p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the provision of mental health services in primary care and the challenges posed by the national service framework and the proposed reform of the Mental Health Act. Describes the staff working in primary care, their skills and training; the incidence of mental health problems among their patients; and the role of Primary Care Groups in commissioning mental health services.