Mental Health Act 2007 Resources

 

Useful documents

  • The Legal Aspects of the Care and Treatment of Children and Young People with Mental Disorder:  A Guide for Professionals - January 2009.  Click here to access this Guide
  • The workbooks for administrators and hospital managers are now available in PDF from the training material section of mhact.csip.org.uk

Click on the link below to access this webpage

http://www.mhact.csip.org.uk/workstreams/the-mental-health-act-amendment-workstreams/training/materials.html

  • The IMHA Regulations have been published as a written statement by the Minister Phil Hope

Click on the link below to view the regulations on the OPSI website

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20083166_en_1

  • The DoH have published the patient information leaflets for the amendments

Click on the link below to access

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_089275

 

  • Information on Statutory Forms

Click here to access this information 

 

  • An Announcement on Prescriptions for Patients on SCT

Click here to access this information

 

  • Supervised Community Treatment: A Guide for Practitioners - October 2008

Click here to access the guide

 

  • SCT Model

System Modeling for Supervised Community Treatment

Click here to access the model

 

  • Articles of Interest

Kathryn Pugh has written an article on MHA amendments relating to young people, it has just been published in MHT.

Click here to download the article

 

Useful links

 

Department of Health Webpage on 'What's new in mental health'

This page provides new documents and information available about mental health and can be found here

 

NIMHE National Website on 'Implementing the amended Mental Health Act 1983

The national website for the implementation programme is here. This contains the latest news, information about the work CSIP is undertaking nationally - including Advocacy, Supervised Community Treatment, Workforce, Training and Administration. In addition, there are links to key documents and other online resources.

The latest implementation programme bulletin for the Mental Health Act 2007, Update 11, has just been uploaded to the site. This has been timed to coincide with the launch of the SCT modelling application.