scholarly journals Preliminary evaluation of supervised discharge order in the South and West Region

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 421-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Mohan ◽  
Chris Thompson ◽  
Mark A. Mullee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
The South ◽  
Mental Impairment ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
West Region ◽  
After Care ◽  
Mental Health Patients

Six months after the introduction of the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995, this study shows that the new legislation has been implemented in its first six months of existence. Lack of resources and increased paperwork are identified by some doctors as reasons for their reluctance to proceed with implementation of supervised discharge. Patients who were placed on supervised discharge were found to be mostly young, mentally ill patients previously detained under Section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983, as yet, the 1995 Act does not appear to have been implemented in the after care of ‘forensic’ patients or those with mental impairment.

scholarly journals The use of the Mental Health Act in learning disabilities

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 596-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Kon ◽  
Nick Bouras
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
The South ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Mental Impairment ◽  
Young Males ◽  
Mental Health Act

Psychiatrists in learning disabilities in the South-East Thames Region were asked to fill in questionnaires on the last five patients they had sectioned in an attempt to describe current practice in their usage of the Mental Health Act (1983). Clients tended to be sectioned under the category of mental impairment and were mainly young males with violent behaviour. Treatment of mental illness was less of a problem.

scholarly journals Workload implications of the proposed new Mental Health Act – an audit

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Sean Whyte ◽  
Clive Meux
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Government ◽  
Time Required

Aims and Method To estimate specific time and resource implications for professionals, if proposed changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 (England & Wales) in the Government's white paper were to be implemented unchanged. An audit of time spent on current procedures was extrapolated. Results The amount of time required to comply with the Act will rise substantially (by 27% overall). Social workers and independent doctors will spend 30% and 207% more time respectively, complying with the Act, but psychiatrists providing clinical care to forensic patients should be largely unaffected. Clinical Implications If the Government presses ahead with its plans for mental health law reform as currently proposed, extra resources will be required to provide additional social work and independent medical time – or other services for patients will suffer.

scholarly journals Consent to Treatment by the Mentally Ill and Mentally Handicapped—An Anomaly in the Mental Health Act 1983

1983 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 145-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridgit C. Dimond
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Consent To Treatment

I would like to bring to light an apparent oversight in the new statutory rules relating to consent to treatment by the mentally ill and mentally handicapped. This will have very serious consequences for the management of patients who are on short-term detention orders. The provisions relating to consent to treatment set out in Part IV of the Mental Health Act 1983 are the first attempt to cover by statutory controls the doctor's clinical freedom to prescribe treatment for his compulsorily detained patient. In addition, certain of the new provisions (which take effect from 30 September 1983) apply to the voluntary patients as well.

The Spectre of Criminalization: Remand Admissions to the Forensic Psychiatric Institute, British Columbia, 1975–1990

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip M J Brinded ◽  
Faye E Grant ◽  
Jeanette E Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychiatric Institute ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric

The history of the Forensic Psychiatric Institute (FPI) of British Columbia is reviewed through a description of the 3,500 remand admissions to the Institute between 1975 and 1990. Individuals charged with only minor offences and those who were certified under the Mental Health Act 1983 and subsequently had their charges stayed are examined in more detail. Results appear to suggest that these two groups are particularly vulnerable to the process of criminalization. The possible link between criminalization of the mentally ill and deinstitutionalization is explored.

scholarly journals Detention – the grey area

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-13
Author(s):  
Oscar E. Daly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Sexual Deviancy ◽  
Grey Area ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
The Government

In September 1978 the Government published a review of the Mental Health Act (1959). This review was prompted to a large degree by an increasing awareness of the rights of the mentally ill and by an awareness among psychiatrists of the limits of their management procedures. The proposals of this review were largely incorporated into the Mental Health Act (1983). Among the proposals so incorporated was one that persons could not be detained in hospital against their will for assessment or treatment “by reason only of promiscuity or other immoral conduct, sexual deviancy or dependence on alcohol or drugs”.

Psychotic Men Remanded in Custody to Brixton Prison

1994 ◽  
Vol 164 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Robertson ◽  
Susanne Dell ◽  
Katie James ◽  
Adrian Grounds
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Present System ◽  
Major Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Medical Referral

All referrals to medical officers in Brixton Prison over a five-month period in 1989 were examined. This paper reports the progress through this remand prison of those men who were considered to be suffering from a major psychiatric disorder. Many men had been charged with relatively minor offences. The net effect of medical intervention was to delay release from custody. Because of the administrative delays inherent in the system of medical referral and hospital admission under section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983, it was those prisoners who were most ill who tended to remain in prison for the longest periods. Judged in terms of its efficiency to ensure speedy treatment for mentally ill remanded offenders, the present system is regarded as cumbersome and extremely inefficient. It is suggested that greater use should be made of section 48 of the 1983 Act to divert mentally ill, remanded offenders from prison.

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