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

Mental Health Measuresand other Consultations

from an Advocate’s perspective

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MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PROVIDERS

The Mental Health (Wales) Measure was passed by the National Assembly for

Wales in November 2010 and received Royal Approval in December 2010.


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.


Enable the client to make informed choicesSupport the client to offer their views at care planning

and other meetingsUphold a clients’ rights

Support the client to make a complaint

An advocate does not give adviceAn advocate is not a counsellor, mediator or social

workerAn advocate does not offer befriending

An advocate does not police the services (or care homes).


Two Statutory Advocacy Provisions

IMCAIndependent Mental Capacity Advocates

IMHAIndependent Mental Health Advocates


The Mental Health (Assessment of Former Users of Secondary Mental Health Services) (Wales)

Regulations 2011

The Mental Health (Care Coordination and Care and Treatment Planning) (Wales) Regulations 2011

The Mental Health (Independent Mental Health Advocates) (Wales) Regulations 2011

End of consultation: 16th May 2011


expand provision of local primary mental health support services

ensure all service users within secondary care have a care coordinator and a care plan

provide a mechanism for re-access for previousservice users

expand independent advocacy to all inpatients and all hospital and community sections of the Mental Health

Act 1983


The Mental Health (Assessment of Former Users of Secondary Mental Health Services) (Wales) Regulations

2011

The 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.


The Mental Health (Care Coordination and Care and Treatment Planning) (Wales) Regulations 2011

The 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).


January 2012

Care 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.


The Mental Health (Independent Mental Health Advocates) (Wales) Regulations 2011

This consultation is about draft regulations relating toindependent mental health advocacy under the Mental

Health 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.


Under the Mental Health Act 1983, advocates arecurrently available for:

all patients detained for assessment or treatment inhospital, or under guardianship, or on a community

treatment order

The advocacy scheme is being expanded to include:patients held under the emergency admission and holding

powers of the 1983 Act

all (informal) patients in hospital receiving assessment ortreatment for a mental health problem


Carers Strategies (Wales) MeasureDraft Regulations and Guidance

End of consultation: 23rd June 2011

Health 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


All Wales Catering and Nutrition Standards for Food and Fluid Provision for Hospital Inpatients

End of consultation: 15th June 2011

Review of Respite Care in Wales End of consultation: 8th June 2011

Consultation on draft Tobacco Control Action Plan for Wales

End of consultation: 18th May 2011


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