The Masked AMHP makes it into the Guardian -- again!
Here is the link to a piece the Masked AMHP has had published in the Guardian Social Care Network section of its website today. You can find the article here.
I wonder what you think of the CoP judgement in the wales anorexia case- I can see how the judgement was arrived at but I can' t see how a case that could have been rresolved by mha (caselaw on primacy etc) ended up under mca? One of the chambers haspublished the judgement in full. Thanx
I agree that the case of E could and should have been dealt with under Sec.3 MHA. She has a mental disorder withing the meaning of the Act, it is certainly of a nature or degree, and the need for treatment arises directly from her mental disorder. I have recently detained someone under Sec.3 in precisely the same circumstances in order to give her live saving treatment -- in her case, IV fluid and subsequently feeding through a naso-gastric tube. On assessment she was at the point of death. The MCA is in my opinion simply inappropriate in Anorexia.
I wonder what you think of the CoP judgement in the wales anorexia case- I can see how the judgement was arrived at but I can' t see how a case that could have been rresolved by mha (caselaw on primacy etc) ended up under mca? One of the chambers haspublished the judgement in full. Thanx
ReplyDeleteI agree that the case of E could and should have been dealt with under Sec.3 MHA. She has a mental disorder withing the meaning of the Act, it is certainly of a nature or degree, and the need for treatment arises directly from her mental disorder. I have recently detained someone under Sec.3 in precisely the same circumstances in order to give her live saving treatment -- in her case, IV fluid and subsequently feeding through a naso-gastric tube. On assessment she was at the point of death. The MCA is in my opinion simply inappropriate in Anorexia.
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