Workload implications of the new Mental Health Act

Implications of the Mental Health Act 1983 (Remedial) Order 2001.

Whereas: (a) sections 72(1) and 73(1) of the Mental Health Act 1983(1) have been declared(2) under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998(3) to be incompatible with a Convention right(4); (b) the time for bringing an appeal has expired and no appeal has been brought within that time; (c) the Secretary of State considers that there are compelling reasons for proceeding by way of a remedial order...

The politics of a new Mental Health Act.

Mental handicap and the mental health act.

Implementing the Mental Health Act

Residential Accommodation and Day Centres The proposals put forward for hostels vary considerably : the majority see the need for something extra and some plan special hostels for the aged and mentally infirm; some for patients discharged from mental hospitals; some use the hostels of voluntary organisations, some their own. Little is said about the need to collaborate with mental hospitals but...

The Mental Health Act, 1959

a series of articles in The Hospital, written during 1959-60, and made available in book form in response to many requests received. It does not attempt to be a complete and comprehensive guide to the Act; the full text of every section and of every Regulation is not reproduced, reproductions of the Circulars are not included. It is intended to be read in conjunction with the Act itself, but as...