Thursday, 18 August 2016

What is the Mental Health Act For?

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Working in a busy AMHP office triaging requests for assessments under the Mental Health Act, I am driven to conclude that often an AMHP’s...
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Saturday, 13 August 2016

Sec.136 and Compliance with Article 5 of the Human Rights Act 1998

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Here is a guest blog, written by John Holden, an AMHP with  Surrey Emergency Duty Team, discussing the implications of Article 5 HRA in re...
Wednesday, 6 July 2016

The meaning and implications of “legal custody” when applied to the Mental Health Act

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Recently, when I was on duty triaging the county’s requests for assessments under the Mental Health Act, one of my AMHP colleagues was re...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Ask the AMHP: Getting discharged by a Tribunal; aftercare for a Sec.37/41 patient; and treatment, accommodation and mental capacity

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Ask The Masked AMHP for the answers to your thorny MHA related problems. He might know the answer. Or not. The Masked AMHP always tri...
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Friday, 10 June 2016

Section: Radio Drama about a Mental Health Tribunal

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This sounds really interesting: there's a radio play going out on BBC Radio 4 at 2.15 pm on 14th June 2016, which is about a patient ...
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Friday, 27 May 2016

Can Conditions Imposed Under Sec.37/41 Breach Article 8 Human Rights? Recent Case Law

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Conditions can be imposed on patients subject to conditional discharge under Sec.37/41 MHA, as well as those subject to Community Treatme...
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Friday, 20 May 2016

Death and Fire Bunnies: Another Story from an Out-of-hours Social Worker

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I’ve mentioned before on this blog that in addition to my day job, I did shifts in the local out-of-hours social work team for about 14 y...
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