The Human Rights Act 1998: Article 8 case law and child and adolescent mental health services

Human Rights Act 1998 and mental health legislation: implications for the management of mentally ill patients.

In the management of mentally ill patients, there is a tension between protecting the rights of individual patients and safeguarding public safety. The Human Rights Act 1998 emphasises on the former while two recent white papers focus on the latter. This article first examines the extent to which the Mental Health Act 1983 is consistent with the Human Rights Act. It argues that while the recent...

Article 8 of the human rights act 1998: a review of case law related to forensic psychiatry and prisoners in the United Kingdom.

The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was introduced into United Kingdom domestic law in 2000 and incorporated most of the European Convention on Human Rights. Article 8 of the HRA provides the right to respect for private and family life, home, and correspondence. It is a qualified right, underpinned by the core HRA principle of proportionality and therefore can be dynamically interpreted. The foren...

Accountability of specialist child and adolescent mental health services.

Outcome auditing of specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is now well under way internationally. There is, however, debate about objectives and tools. A case is made for the achievable goal of enhancing service accountability through user satisfaction information and clinician-rated contextualised measures of improvements in symptoms and impairment.

Disparities in child and adolescent mental health and mental health services in the U.S

Paediatric Liaison Work by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Background: Although psychiatric morbidity is common amongst paediatric patients, little is known about the availability of CAMH paediatric liaison services. Method: We surveyed all Trusts with specialist CAMH services and paediatric units in Greater London, enquiring about the nature of liaison that CAMHS provide. Results: We found that although liaison paediatric work was common, dedicated pa...