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Mental Health Measures and other Consultations from an Advocate’s perspective

Mental Health Measures and other Consultations from an Advocate’s perspective. http://wales.gov.uk/consultations/healthsocialcare/?lang=en. MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS.

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Mental Health Measures and other Consultations from an Advocate’s perspective

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  1. Mental Health Measuresand other Consultationsfrom an Advocate’s perspective http://wales.gov.uk/consultations/healthsocialcare/?lang=en MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  2. The Mental Health (Wales) Measure was passed by the National Assembly for Wales in November 2010 and received Royal Approval in December 2010. MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  3. What is an Advocate?The role of the advocate is to help people communicate with an effective voice, enabling them to influence decisions that affect their lives.Someone who acts with or on behalf of another to establish or promote that person’s rights. MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  4. Enable the client to make informed choicesSupport the client to offer their views at care planning and other meetingsUphold a clients’ rightsSupport the client to make a complaintAn advocate does not give adviceAn advocate is not a counsellor, mediator or social workerAn advocate does not offer befriendingAn advocate does not police the services (or care homes). MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  5. Two Statutory Advocacy ProvisionsIMCAIndependent Mental Capacity AdvocatesIMHAIndependent Mental Health Advocates MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  6. The Mental Health (Assessment of Former Users of Secondary Mental Health Services) (Wales) Regulations 2011The Mental Health (Care Coordination and Care and Treatment Planning) (Wales) Regulations 2011The Mental Health (Independent Mental Health Advocates) (Wales) Regulations 2011End of consultation:16th May 2011 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  7. expand provision of local primary mental health support servicesensure all service users within secondary care have a care coordinator and a care planprovide a mechanism for re-access for previousservice usersexpand independent advocacy to all inpatients and all hospital and community sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  8. The Mental Health (Assessment of Former Users of Secondary Mental Health Services) (Wales) Regulations 2011The Measure places duties on Local Health Boards (LHBs) and local authorities to make arrangements which enable individuals who have been discharged from secondary mental health services, but who subsequently believe that their mental health is deteriorating to such a point as to require specialist intervention again, to refer themselves back to those services directly, without necessarily needing to first go to their general practitioner or elsewhere for a referral. MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  9. The Mental Health (Care Coordination and Care and Treatment Planning) (Wales) Regulations 2011The Measure places duties on Local Health Boards (LHBs) and local authorities to appoint an eligible care coordinator for a ‘relevant patient’ (someone for whom secondary mental health services are being provided). MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  10. January 2012Care and treatment plans must be completed on the WelshAssembly Government forms.Transitional provisionsWe are proposing that if a service user does not have a care coordinator when these new arrangements come into force, a care coordinator must be appointed within 1 month. MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  11. The Mental Health (Independent Mental Health Advocates) (Wales) Regulations 2011This consultation is about draft regulations relating toindependent mental health advocacy under the MentalHealth Act 1983.The Welsh Assembly Government proposes commencing the expansion of independent mental health advocacy in relation to detained patients in October 2011 and in relation to informal patients at the beginning of 2012. In both cases the actual dates are still be confirmed. MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  12. Under the Mental Health Act 1983, advocates arecurrently available for:all patients detained for assessment or treatment inhospital, or under guardianship, or on a communitytreatment orderThe advocacy scheme is being expanded to include:patients held under the emergency admission and holdingpowers of the 1983 Actall (informal) patients in hospital receiving assessment ortreatment for a mental health problem MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  13. Carers Strategies (Wales) MeasureDraft Regulations and GuidanceEnd of consultation:23rd June 2011Health within and beyond Welsh borders:An enabling framework for international health engagement End of consultation:24th June 2011 UK influenza pandemic preparedness strategyEnd of consultation:17th June 2011 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  14. All Wales Catering and Nutrition Standards for Food and Fluid Provision for Hospital Inpatients End of consultation:15th June 2011Review of Respite Care in Wales End of consultation:8th June 2011 Consultation on draft Tobacco Control Action Plan for WalesEnd of consultation:18th May 2011 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

  15. Mental Health Measuresand other ConsultationsHAVE YOUR SAY http://wales.gov.uk/consultations/healthsocialcare/?lang=en MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

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