Focuses on the Mental Health Act in Great Britain. Promotion of the principle of non-discrimination on the grounds of mental ill health; Emphasis on patient autonomy; Incorporation of safeguards to ensure the healt...
We believe that the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (2019) will allow federal funding to teach and institutionalize such unethical practices without sufficient oversight, safeguards or penalties.” NOW A NEW PCHETA BILL HAS NOW BEEN PROPOSED The 2019 PCHETA did not pass in ...
For the BC Schizophrenia Society, that rise shows more people are getting needed treatment and underscores the need to ensure existing safeguards are applied evenly. “Our mental health system does not want to detain people indefinitely,” BCSS CEO Faydra Aldridge told The Tyee in a previous in...
The legislation as it stands lacks a clear purpose and appropriate safeguards for people at their most vulnerable, according to a report issued last week by Health Justice, a non-profit whose website says it aims to “improve the laws and policies that govern coercive health care in B.C.”...
An increase in the access to Mental Health Review Tribunals g. The requirement that there be age-appropriate facilities for under-18s who have to go into hospital. h. The introduction of Independent Mental Health Act Advocacy (IMHA) i. Additional safeguards regarding the use of Electro-...
In this series of articles on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) the author now turns to the interrelation between mental capacity and mental disorder and between the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) (as amended by the Mental Health Act 2007 [MHA, 2007]) and the Bournewood safeguards. The ar...
They add that the provision for supervised community treatment lacks the appropriate safeguards. The group of people responsible for the detention of patients is widened, even though there is a lack of clear guidance detailing how this would work in practice, say the writers. As the old test ...
An increasing number of mental health services are now offered through mobile health (mHealth) systems, such as in mobile applications (apps). Although the
long as their treatment in hospital does not amount to a deprivation of their liberty. The Act does not apply to any treatment for mental disorder—e.g., electroconvulsive therapy—being given in accordance with the rules about compulsory treatment set out in the Mental Health Acts 1983, 2007...
Safeguards extend beyond clinical utility. We argue that equity, in terms of gender, sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and importantly mental-health-care access are equally important, especially given that most digital exhaust data from smartphones, wearables, and social media often exclude...