DHSC Reforming the Mental Health Act Consultation - Closing Date is 21 April 2021
04/03/2021
In 2017 the government asked for an independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA), to look at how it’s used and to suggest ways to improve it. The review’s final report said that the MHA does not always work as well as it should for patients, their families and their carers.
The DHSC is now proposing a wide range of changes to rebalance the MHA, to put patients at the centre of decisions about their own care and ensure everyone is treated equally. The changes are based on 4 principles that have been developed with people with lived experience of the MHA.
They are:
- choice and autonomy – ensuring service users’ views and choices are respected
- least restriction – ensuring the MHA’s powers are used in the least restrictive way
- therapeutic benefit – ensuring patients are supported to get better, so they can be discharged from the MHA
- the person as an individual – ensuring patients are viewed and treated as individuals
The DHSC are consulting on these proposed changes – this is the link
(https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reforming-the-mental-health-act ).
The consultation closes on 21 April 2021
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