An account to gather Tweets/Threads by AMHPs & others re 2022 Draft Mental Health Bill - a place to go to for catch up/commentary -mainly Retweets no editing.
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The AMHP Place retweeted
If you'd like a deep dive into the #MentalHealthBill, please join us at @DoughtyStreet Chambers, 6pm on Tues 21 Jan, in-person or online. I'll be speaking about the potential impact on people with learning disabilities and autistic people. buff.ly/4h6HMb4
The AMHP Place retweeted
Are you a social worker or do you know someone who is?
How do you fancy some new legal powers to coerce people, with all the risks and responsibilities which come with that?
Lord Davies of Brixton thinks you should have this option which could then be seen as an obligation.
NEW BLOG - "New 136 Amendments"
Lord Davies of Brixton proposes that 136 become a power for a long list of professionals, including midwives. Some thoughts from me on this.
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The AMHP Place retweeted
This is different to the post yesterday about 136 amendments.
Lord Davies of Brixton has been quite busy and I much more get where he's coming from with this one, albeit some questions and issues still arise.
NEW BLOG - "New 140 Amendments"
Lord Davies of Brixton has proposes that section 140 MHA be amended to compel wider notification of hospitals which can urgently admit and clear legal obligation and oversight to admit when necessary.
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The AMHP Place retweeted
The Mental Health Bill - what does it cover, what does it not cover, and how would the MHA look if it were changed by the Bill: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
The AMHP Place retweeted
Highlights from the MH Bill '24 in a🧵-
Section 3 MHA will change:
- Autism and LD will no longer qualify for detention under the provision
- Will initially last three months, not six; but is still renewable 3-3-6-12-12, etc.
- The new "nominated person" is relevant.
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NEW BLOG - "The Mental Health Bill 2024"
My reaction to and highly partial summary of the new Bill before Parliament.
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The AMHP Place retweeted
The new Mental Health Bill 2024, introduced to Parliament today -
May well be amended during its passage through Parliament - this light reading will be me Wednesday evening light reading and I'll have a blog out tomorrow summarising it.
bills.parliament.uk/publicat…
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NEW BLOG - "The 'New' Sections 135-136"
This is what the wording of s135-136 MHA will look like if (and only if) the new MH Bill reaches Royal Assent without further amendment of these provisions.
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The AMHP Place retweeted
Yet another discerning 'Blog' of invaluable worth to all professionals in the world of "Mental Health" from Mr Brown. The back catalogue of Mr Browns' "Blogs" should be archived securely by a responsible organisation and published for the benefit of all by an academic body.
NEW BLOG - "Martyn Stringer"
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The AMHP Place retweeted
NEW BLOG - "Happy Birthday To Me!"
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The AMHP Place retweeted
It’s #999Day for the emergency services —
Loads of free legal and practical resources on here for 999 crews responding to mental health emergencies and trying to keep us safe.
Front page helps you navigate the website.
#EmergencyServicesDay
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The AMHP Place retweeted
The answer/review is always to suggest greater levels of restrictions & coercion & use of the #MHA & that lessons be learnt✔️>
"Providers will need to ensure that 'lessons are learnt' from the review, in particular, in relation to discharge planning, risk assessment, patient & family engagement, capacity assessments and the use of the MHA, including CTOs."
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The AMHP Place retweeted
my alternative titles for Mental Health Act:-
i) current - "Mentally Disordered Persons (Deprivation of Liberty Arrangements) Act
ii) future - "Mentally Unwell Persons (Safeguarding, Care & Treatment Arrangements) Act
The AMHP Place retweeted
Admission Thresholds #MHC
Substantial/ Significant.
“Those words are doing a lot of heavy lifting there and some may say those words are as subjective as the original wording whose ambiguity the last government was hoping to correct.”
#AMHPlife > mentalhealthcop.wordpress.co…
The AMHP Place retweeted
Mark
Seems to me that there will be as many opinions/comments/complaints etc about the scenario of the Bill being 'shelved' as there are commentators - but the real 'players'/stake-holders that have influence here and now to move things on are listed in my previous reply to you.
The AMHP Place retweeted
Mark, in another tweet I ask if it might be worth reconvening the "Review" so that the Bill in progress can be scrutinised & so add to the state of readiness you suggest. (Not start all over again but 'tidy up') Would 'civil servants' holding the Bill have authority to reconvene?
The AMHP Place retweeted
No mention of the Mental Health Bill in the official briefing notes for the King's Speech... so I guess that has been kicked down the road for the next government along with LPS... gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Will a new Mental Health Act (when it appears!) be able to deal with a scenario such as this? I suspect that the one that has been proposed and is being worked on currently will not.
Accept it’s not obvious & the judge can’t make the Drs fill in Med Recs or instruct an #AMHP to make an application…
*But that is some pressure✔️