SSHSC, LC and SSJ, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act' (CP 355, 2021, consultation from 13/1/21 to 21/4/21)

2021-01 DHSC White Paper on Reforming the MHA.pdf

White Paper on MHA reform "It is two years since Professor Sir Simon Wessely delivered his landmark Independent Review of the Mental Health Act. ... We accept, and we will take forward, the vast majority of its recommendations for change. ... The changes are based on 4 principles that have been developed with people with lived experience of the MHA. They are: (1) choice and autonomy - ensuring service users’ views and choices are respected; (2) least restriction - ensuring the MHA’s powers are used in the least restrictive way; (3) therapeutic benefit - ensuring patients are supported to get better, so they can be discharged from the MHA; (4) the person as an individual - ensuring patients are viewed and treated as individuals."

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  • HTML version . Confusingly this web page is headed "Updated 24 August 2021". It appears that the update was just adding the HTML version (the Gov.uk page linking to it describes the 24/8/21 update as "Added the HTML version of 'Reforming the Mental Health Act: government response'."