Mental Health Act 2007 (c 12) is the Royal Law of the Parliament of Britain. This was changed with the Mental Health Act 1983 and the 2005 Mental Capacity Act. This applies to people in England and Wales. Most of the Law was implemented on 3 November 2008.
It introduces significant changes that include:
- The introduction of supervised Community Care, including the Order Medicine Community (CTOs). This new force replaces the supervised discharges with the power to return the patient to the hospital, where the person may be forcibly treated, if the drug regime is not obeyed in the community.
- Redefining the professional role: extending the reach of mental health professionals who can be responsible for patient care without their consent.
- Create an approved doctor's role, a registered health professional (social worker, nurse, psychologist or occupational therapist) approved by the appropriate authority to act for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended).
- Replace the role of approved social worker with the role of an approved mental health professional; people who fulfill this role do not need to be social workers.
- The closest relative: allows some patients to appoint a civilian couple as the closest relative.
- Definition of mental disorder: introduces a new definition of mental disorder throughout the Act, deletes the previous category
- Criteria for Non-Coercive Commitment: introducing the requirement that a person can not be held for treatment unless proper care is available and removing the treatability test .
- Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT): improves patient protection by taking on the power of ordering that will allow the current time limit to vary and for automatic referral by hospital managers to MHRT.
- Introduction of independent mental health support (IMHAs) for 'qualified patients'.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy should not be given to patients who have the capacity to refuse approval for it, and should only be granted to disadvantaged patients where not contrary to advance directives, decisions taken or representatives or decisions of the Court of Protection.
Video Mental Health Act 2007
Controversy
During the development of the Act, there are fears that the change proposed by Mental Health Bill is cruel. As a result, the government was forced in 2006 to cancel their initial plan to introduce the bill directly and had to amend the 1983 Act instead. Despite this concession, Bill was still defeated several times in the House of Lords before receiving the Royal Assent.
In 2010, the Green Party supported the reform of the Mental Health Act to remove transgender people from the Psychiatric Disorder List, which they viewed as discriminatory.
Maps Mental Health Act 2007
See also
- Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness adopted by the UN General Assembly
References
External links
- Mental Health Act 2007: Review of Articles on the Law of WikiMentalHealth
- CSIP Implemented Mental Health Act changed from NIMHE
- The 1983 Mental Health Act of WikiMentalHealth Shows how the 2007 Act has updated the 1983 Act.
- Select the Committee on the 2005 Mental Capacity Act - Reports, post-legislative examination (www.parliament.uk)
- The Mental Health Act 1983, amended in 2007 Review for users of mental health services and their families.
- Practitioner Institute of Mental Health Practitioners
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