Code of Practice is Go!

The revised Code of Practice and the secondary legislation have now completed the 40 day parliamentary process and will become operational from 3rd November to co-incide with the bulk of the changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 coming into effect. These documents can be found of the Department of Health website here.

Mental Health Act (MHA) Draft Policies Page

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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

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An Announcement on Prescriptions for Patients on SCT

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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

Implementing The Changes to Mental Health Act

CSIP/NIMHE has been commission by the Department of Health to implement a number of changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 brought about by the Mental Health Act 2007. Specifically, we have been tasked with roles in informing those involved of the coming changes, supporting implementation by service providers, directly and by signposting sources of information.

These wide ranging changes will have significant implications for both the way services are run and how they are experienced by service users and carers. In response, we have created a national implementation programme, with delivery on the ground channeled through CSIP's 8 Regional Development Centres, including CSIP Eastern.

CSIP/NIMHE's Lead in the Eastern region for implementation of the amended Act is Lou Brewster and Administrative support for this programme is provided by Sharon Lansdell - contact details are at the bottom of this page.

National Website

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.

Contacts

CSIP's Lead in the Eastern region for implementation of the amended Act is Louisa Brewster. Administrative support for this programme is provided by Sharon Lansdell.