Mental Health News Brief

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April 2010

  • Benefits for prisoners transferred to mental hospitals
  • An unequal relationship: the MHA/MCA interface following GJ
  • Another way?
  • Coroners and Justice Act - impact in inquests
  • Mental Health case law update
  • Nearest Relative

October 2009

  • Assisted Dying - the new Guidance
  • A National Care Service?
  • Rule 43
  • Court of Appeal Confirms Rampton Smoking Ban is Lawful
  • "This is not the end of this by no manners mean" - the end of the mental health act commission
  • Rabone - The latest case on Article 2: The Right to Life

May 2009

  • Patients or Prisoners?
  • Community Treatment Orders - Building on Firm Foundations
  • Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) v Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA)
  • Savage and Mitchell
  • Rules For Disclosure at First Tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber)(Mental Health)
  • Waiting for the SOAD for SCT patient?

July 2008

  • Forthcoming Training Seminars & Conferences
  • Opiate Dependent Prisoners Claims
  • Will the patient confidentiality landscape be changed by Community Treatment Orders?
  • ECT - A New Order
  • The Incapacitated Patient and Representation
  • DECISION TIME - The GMC’s New Guidance on Consent

Sept 2007

  • And The Rest...
  • New Professional Roles
  • Treatment
  • Children and the Mental Health Act
  • The Nearest Relative
  • Community Treatment Orders

May 2007

  • Smokeless zones
  • Case Summaries
  • Inherently obvious?
  • Shorts
  • Nearest dearest

March 2007

  • The Mental Health Bill - All Change?
  • At last... the Mental Capacity Act
  • Re-detention re-defined
  • The Mental Health Bill: A rocky road ahead
  • Deprivations of liberty
  • Must the mail get through?

Jan 2007

  • Treatment
  • The Bournewood Framework
  • Nearest Relative
  • Round-up
  • Supervised Community Treatment
  • Picking up the bill

September 2006

  • Disclosing Clinical records in clinical proceedings
  • Which comes first?
  • Case Summaries
  • Shorts
  • Fit for business? Mental health trusts and foundation status

April 2006

  • Shorts
  • Money's too tight to mention
  • The AWOL "Scottish" patient
  • Case Summaries
  • New ways, but old problems

February 2006

  • Suicide prevention conference
  • Paying the costs of care - there is a limit to the NHS duty
  • No smoke...
  • Welfare advice - an important new decision on how it may be funded
  • Case Summaries
  • The quiet power of the hospital managers

November 2005

  • Comment
  • Shorts
  • Lord Carlile QC welcomes Government concessions on mental health law, but says "could do better"
  • Case Summaries
  • MH - The House of Lords over-rules the Court of Appeal

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