Download - Mental Health Measures and other Consultations from an Advocate’s perspective MENTAL HEALTH
Mental Health Measuresand other Consultations
from an Advocate’s perspective
http://wales.gov.uk/consultations/healthsocialcare/?lang=en
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.
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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.
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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).
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Two Statutory Advocacy Provisions
IMCAIndependent Mental Capacity Advocates
IMHAIndependent Mental Health Advocates
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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
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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