mental health act
The Mental Health Act
The mental health act is an act design to protect people with mental illness. It was originally written in 1983 and reformed in 2007. It sets out clear guidance for a health professional when a person may need to be taken into compulsorily detained in a hospital. This is known as sectioning. This helps carers who are unable to cope without help. People can be sectioned if the health care profession thinks they are a danger to themselves, they are a danger to another person or in danger of abuse from another person. The health professionals have a duty of care to the patient who is mentally ill. They must provide get the right treatment and to give them and their families the right information. The act gives rights to relatives, social workers, doctors and other health professionals to detain a person for their own safety. The act is used by mental health specialist and GP to treat the mentally ill. The mental health act has over 100 sections. However some sections are more relevant to people with dementia. The sections that appeal to people with Dementia are: section 2, section 3 and section 117.
Section 2
This section set out clear guide leads sectioning. A person can be taken into care if the health profession thinks they are at risk. This is so they can be accessed; a section can last 28 days. A section can be from a health professional or a person’s next of kin. Compulsorily detainment normally done by health care professions. To ensure that people are sectioned when needed safely the local authority has a duty to provide training to the health professional to perform this role. In order to get a person sectioned, two doctors must agree that there is a clear risk to person and that sectioning is the best option. They most sign a medical recommendations stating why someone can only be treated in a psychiatric hospital. One of the doctors most have special experience in working with people with a mental disorder. The second is normally
The mental health act is an act design to protect people with mental illness. It was originally written in 1983 and reformed in 2007. It sets out clear guidance for a health professional when a person may need to be taken into compulsorily detained in a hospital. This is known as sectioning. This helps carers who are unable to cope without help. People can be sectioned if the health care profession thinks they are a danger to themselves, they are a danger to another person or in danger of abuse from another person. The health professionals have a duty of care to the patient who is mentally ill. They must provide get the right treatment and to give them and their families the right information. The act gives rights to relatives, social workers, doctors and other health professionals to detain a person for their own safety. The act is used by mental health specialist and GP to treat the mentally ill. The mental health act has over 100 sections. However some sections are more relevant to people with dementia. The sections that appeal to people with Dementia are: section 2, section 3 and section 117.
Section 2
This section set out clear guide leads sectioning. A person can be taken into care if the health profession thinks they are at risk. This is so they can be accessed; a section can last 28 days. A section can be from a health professional or a person’s next of kin. Compulsorily detainment normally done by health care professions. To ensure that people are sectioned when needed safely the local authority has a duty to provide training to the health professional to perform this role. In order to get a person sectioned, two doctors must agree that there is a clear risk to person and that sectioning is the best option. They most sign a medical recommendations stating why someone can only be treated in a psychiatric hospital. One of the doctors most have special experience in working with people with a mental disorder. The second is normally