British Journal of Nursing - The Mental Capacity Act 2005: mental capacity and mental illness

  The Mental Capacity Act 2005: mental capacity and mental illness
Bridgit Dimond,  British Journal of Nursing, Vol. 17, Iss. 3, 14 Feb 2008, pp 182 - 184
Abstract:  In this series of articles on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) the author now turns to the interrelation between mental capacity and mental disorder and between [...]

The Mental Health Act Commission: From Strength to Strength

The Mental Health Act Commission: From Strength to Strength, 25th April, Mental Health Act Commission
Abstract:
Published by the Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC), this report shows that committed engagement of service users throughout the organisation can make a real difference to what an organisation does and achieves.
It describes how the MHAC has involved service [...]

Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 - guidance on transfers between places of safety

   Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 - guidance on transfers between places of safety, Department of Health, 24th April 2008, Service Guidance
The Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions)  Order 2008 - S.I. No. 2008/800 (C.39) - brings section 44 of the Mental Health Act [...]

‘Better Safe than Sorry’ - Dangerousness and Mental Health Policy

  Dangerousness and mental health policy, April 2008, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 15 (3) , 186–194
Abstract: Mental health policy development in the UK has become increasingly dominated by the assumed need to prevent violence and alleviate public concerns about the dangers of the mentally ill living in the community. Risk management [...]

Section 32 Mental Capacity Act - Guidance on nominating a consultee for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent

   Guidance on nominating a consultee for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent, February 2008, Department of Health
This guidance sets out how to identify an appropriate consultee for the purposes of section 32 of the Mental Capacity Act. 
The Act requires the researcher to take reasonable steps to identify a person who, as a [...]

Guidance on Nominating a Consultee for Research Involving Adults Who Lack Capacity to Consent

Guidance on nominating a consultee for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent  establishes how to identify an appropriate consultee for the purposes of section 32 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.  Researchers are required by the Act to take reasonable steps to identify a person who, as a result of an existing relationship with the person [...]

Tall Order? - Will Compulsory Treatment Orders (CTOs) Work

    Will community treatment orders work? Health Service Journal, 24th January 2008
Compulsory treatment orders are on their way but critics claim there is a worrying lack of evidence that they can help ‘revolving door’ patients, writes Mark Gould
Abstract: This autumn might see more than a few managers feeling higher than average symptoms of stress. On 1 [...]

Mental Health Act Commission Twelfth Biennial Report - Risk, Rights, Recovery

   Mental Health Act Commission Twelfth Biennial Report - Risk, Rights, Recovery
finds that there are severe funding issues faced by providers of mental health services in that:

Patients deemed to be a threat to themselves or others are being denied hospital beds while commissioners disagree with regard to funding.

The Mental Health Act Commission has found practitioners [...]

BMJ - Assessing the Mental Capacity - The Mental Capacity Act

    Assessing mental capacity: the Mental Capacity Act,  BMJ 2008;336;322-325 Authors: Timothy R J Nicholson, William Cutter and Matthew Hotopf
Assessing mental capacity is an important part of a clinician’s role, and the recent Mental Capacity Act can help doctors when making such decisions.
Abstract:  Clinicians are often confronted with decisions about mental capacity. Healthcare workers in [...]

“Don’t use mental health legislation to lock untreatable people away”

        Don’t use mental health legislation to lock untreatable people away, say doctors, 31st January 2008
Patients who cannot be treated are at risk of being detained in psychiatric facilities even if there is no prospect of doctors being able to provide a health benefit to them, said the BMA today (Thursday 31 January 2008), in [...]

The New Mental Health Act Commission Eleventh Biennial Report

The New Mental Health Act Commission Eleventh Biennial Report   (In place of fear)
questions whether all inpatient mental health services provide their patients with acceptable levels of security, care, or a sense of being treated as  someone who matters. It welcome the Government’s announced refocus on inpatient services and call for it to concentrate on building [...]

Best Interests

    Best Interests - Guidance on determining the best interests of adults who lack the capacity to make a decision (or decisions) for themselves [England and Wales]
Best Interests Guidance for England and Wales (December 2007)
This guidance has been written in order to give additional information and support to people who may have to participate in [...]

Coming to a Cinema near you!

   Mental Capacity Act Film 
The Mental Capacity Act which came fully into force on 1st October 2007, safeguards the interests of people who may lack mental capacity to make decisions for themselves, now or in the future.
‘Three Stories’ is a powerful documentary depicting the 3 real life stories. It shows how the Mental Capacity Act [...]

Prisoners on the Move

  Procedure for the transfer of prisoners to and from hospital under sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act (1983) 7th December 2007, Department of Health
The revised and updated ‘Procedure for the Transfer of Prisoners to and from Hospital under Sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983′ aims to help colleagues [...]

Current Awareness Bulletin

  The CEBMH’s e-CAB is a fortnightly bulletin containing selected news items on mental health issues, including clinical news, health and social care guidance, policy and publications.
An easy way to keep up-to-date in Mental Health.

Mental Health Act 2007 Implementation Self Assessment Tool

Mental Health Act 2007 Implementation Self Assessment Tool
Produced by the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) , the aim of the ISAT is to help organisations providing services under the Act to prepare for a timely and effective implementation of the new legislation. The tool will be useful to service commissioners. Although its primary target is [...]

Mental Capacity Act 2005: Deprivation of liberty safeguards

Mental Capacity Act 2005: Deprivation of liberty safeguards 21 November 2007
 The Safeguards are due to be implemented in April 2009. Local Mental Capacity Act implementation networks are invited to incorporate the implementation of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards into their work. Action: Directors of Adult Services, and NHS chief executives should read the important linked information [...]

Implementing the Mental Health Act 2007

Implementing the Mental Health Act 2007
Mental Health Act 2007: secondary legislation
Revised Code of Practice: Mental Health Act: Code of Practice
This is the microsite for CSIP/NIMHE’s implementation programme for the forthcoming changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 in England.
We have been tasked by the Department of Health to have a key role in:

informing those involved [...]

Mental Capacity Act 2005: Deprivation of liberty safeguards

Mental Health Act 2007  The Mental Health Act 2007 (Explanatory Note), which received Royal Assent in July 2007, as well as amending the Mental Health Act 1983, was used as the vehicle for introducing deprivation of liberty safeguards into the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Explanatory Note, Code of Practice).  This briefing sheet sets out information about the [...]