What are the key points of the Mental Health Act 2007?
it establishes the system of public mental health care and provides for the licensing of private mental health facilities in NSW. it sets out the circumstances in which persons with mental illness may be admitted to and treated in public hospital based mental health facilities on either a voluntary or involuntary basis.
What is the Mental Health Act 2007 in health and social care?
The main purpose of the legislation is to ensure that people with serious mental disorders which threaten their health or safety or the safety of the public can be treated irrespective of their consent where it is necessary to prevent them from harming themselves or others.
What is a Section 17 of the Mental Health Act?
Section 17 of the Mental Health Act allows detained patients to be granted leave of absence from the hospital in which they are detained. Leave is an agreed absence for a defined purpose and duration and is accepted as an important part of a patient’s treatment plan.
What is a Section 3 of the Mental Health Act?
Section 3 of the Mental Health Act is commonly known as “treatment order” it allows for the detention of the service user for treatment in the hospital based on certain criteria and conditions being met.
What is a Section 117 meeting?
Section 117 of the Mental Health Act says that aftercare services are services which are intended to: meet a need that arises from or relates to your mental health problem, and. reduce the risk of your mental condition getting worse, and you having to go back to hospital.
What is Section 19 Mental Health Act?
Section 19 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and regulations made under it, enable a patient who is detained in hospital to be transferred to another hospital and to be detained in that hospital on the same basis.
What is Section 17 of the Mental Health Act?