SSHSC, LC and SSJ, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act: Government response to consultation' (CP 501, July 2021)
Response to MHA review This is the main report, but the easy-read version's headings are: Introduction; Four principles; Reasons for keeping people in hospital; Your right to go to a tribunal; People who have gone back into hospital; Giving tribunals more power; Hospital manager’s panel hearings; Choosing your care and treatment; Making sure your choices are listened to; Care and treatment plans; Refusing treatment; Asking a tribunal to stop your treatment; Agreeing to go into hospital; Nominated person; Advocacy; The Mental Capacity Act; Accident and emergency departments; Going to a mental health hospital from prison; People who have been in trouble with the law; The Social Supervisor; People with a learning disability and autistic people; People with a learning disability who get into trouble with the law; Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews; The Care Quality Commission (CQC); Community Treatment Orders (CTOs).
See also
External links
- Consultation outcome: Reforming the Mental Health Act . This page contains the document in different formats plus an impact assessment.
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Type: Consultation response🔍
Title: Reforming the Mental Health Act: Government response to consultation
Author: Lord Chancellor🔍 · Secretary of State for Justice🔍 · Secretary of State for Health and Social Care🔍
Date: 15/7/21🔍
What links here:
- Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 by Simon Wessely (2018)
- SSHSC, LC and SSJ, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act' (CP 355, 2021, consultation from 13/1/21 to 21/4/21)
- Katherine Garratt and Judy Laing, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act' (House of Commons Library research briefing CBP-9132, 6/6/22)
- Mental Health Bill 2022
- Jonathan Wilson, 'Mental health case law: update' (Legal Action, May 2022)