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

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."

See also

• SSHSC, LC and SSJ, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act: Government response to consultation' (CP 501, July 2021)

External links

• 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'."

• HTML summary

• Impact assessment

• Web accessible PDF

• Print ready PDF

• Print ready front cover PDF

• Matt Hancock, 'Oral statement to Parliament: We must bring the Mental Health Act into the 21st century' (13/1/21)

• DHSC, 'Landmark reform of mental health laws' (press release, 13/1/21)

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Type: White Paper🔍 · Consultation🔍

Title: Reforming the Mental Health Act

Author: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care🔍 · Lord Chancellor🔍 · Secretary of State for Justice🔍

Organisation: Department of Health and Social Care🔍 · Lord Chancellor's Department🔍 · Ministry of Justice🔍

Date: 13/1/21🔍

Date closed: 21/4/21🔍

What links here:

• Mental Health Treatment Bill 2017
• Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 by Simon Wessely (2018)
• Neil Allen, 'Discussion paper: Modernising the Mental Health Act' (15/1/21)
• Law Society, 'White paper on reforming the Mental Health Act - Law Society response' (22/4/21)
• SSHSC, LC and SSJ, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act: Government response to consultation' (CP 501, July 2021)
• Jonathan Wilson, 'Mental health: update' (Legal Action, March 2021)
• Katherine Garratt and Judy Laing, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act' (House of Commons Library research briefing CBP-9132, 6/6/22)