Intelligence of Patients in Subnormality Hospitals: A Survey of Admissions in 1961

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (472) ◽  
pp. 219-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. F. Castell ◽  
P. J. Mittler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
British Psychological Society

This paper is one of two considering certain aspects of the Mental Health Act, 1959, in relation to subnormal patients; it is based on a report of a Working Party submitted to the Council of the British Psychological Society and is published with the Society's approval. (The second paper (Mittler and Castell, 1964) considers plans for hospital and community care.)

scholarly journals Consent to Treatment: Legal and Ethical Aspects

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 207-209
Author(s):  
Paul Bowden
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Consent To Treatment ◽  
Patient’S Will ◽  
Policy Committee

In anticipating the consultative paper A Review of the Mental Health Act, 1959 the College's Public Policy Committee prepared a report in 1974 (News and Notes, October, November 1974). The second of six points covered in the report related to compulsory detention and treatment. It reads:The Working Party are firmly of the view that compulsory powers should include the power to treat patients compulsorily for any form of mental disorder, but has doubts as to how far certain types of treatment should be applied on the sole authority of the Responsible Medical Officer against the patient's will or when he is incapable of giving consent.

scholarly journals Brief Report: Decline in the Use of ECT: The York Study

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 303-304
Author(s):  
Kumud Bhatnagar ◽  
Peter Kennedy ◽  
Stephen Morley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Antidepressant Drug ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Mental Health Act

A national survey in 1980 drew attention to the wide variation in frequency with which electro-convulsive treatment was being used. Yorkshire Region was at the top of the league with three times the level of the Oxford Region which had the lowest rate. Since then a good deal more research has been published on the effectiveness and limitations of ECT.1–3 Other factors which might have influenced clinicians in their prescribing of this treatment include much stricter conditions in the 1983 Mental Health Act for giving ECT compulsorily, plenty of media comment which may have reduced its acceptability, the increasing confidence of general practitioners in prescribing antidepressant drug therapies, and the greater emphasis on community care.

Trends in the use of the Italian Mental Health Act, 1979–1997

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 444-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Guaiana ◽  
Corrado Barbui
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Absolute Number ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Psychiatric Beds

AbstractItalian statistics on psychiatric bed availability, voluntary and compulsory admissions were examined from 1979 to 1997. Although the number of psychiatric beds dropped by 62.5%, the absolute number of compulsory admissions has remained substantially stable. The proportion of all admissions that were compulsory decreased from 17.1% to 11%. This study shows that a shift to community care was not associated with an increase in compulsory admissions in Italy.

scholarly journals Guardianship – a case for wider use

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Symonds
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Future ◽  
Treatment Order ◽  
Community Treatment Order

Few psychiatrists have had much experience of guardianship (Section 7, Mental Health Act, 1983). The two cases described have been successful and suggest wider use of this section. It seems apposite in view of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' advice on discharge of patients from hospital, and discussion on a community treatment order; the continuing drive to community care, as codified in the ‘Care Programme Approach’; and the need in the future to treat increasingly disturbed individuals in the community as envisaged in the Reed report.

scholarly journals Holding powers in A&E departments

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 615-617
Author(s):  
K. R. Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Common

The Mental Health Act as an instrument of statute law is unable to address practicalities of caring for mentally disturbed persons who are awaiting formal detention. The common law relevant to this area is ill-defined and depends on interpretation of precedent. The resulting confusion and consequent problems will become more apparent with the advancement of community care, and is a matter which warrants urgent review.

scholarly journals Consultant Norms in General Psychiatry

1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 233-233
Author(s):  
Peter Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
General Psychiatry ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Drug Problems

The College's Manpower Committee, chaired by Dr Fiona Caldicott, has recently debated the case for setting new norms for general psychiatrists to meet increased clinical demand caused by changing expectations of community care, the new Mental Health Act and the rising numbers of elderly mentally ill and patients with alcohol and drug problems. One view was that such an exercise would be a waste of time, owing to uncertainties about the implementation of 'Short’ and also because many districts have not yet reached the norm of one (whole-time equivalent) consultant to 40,000 population agreed with the Department of Health in 1975. It was agreed that the Manpower Committee should first of all try to help consultants in undermanned districts to overcome obstacles frustrating local initiatives to increase the establishment of general psychiatrists. Letters should be addressed to Dr Caldicott at the College address.

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