https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/discharge-from-mental-health-inpatient-settings/discharge-from-mental-health-inpatient-settings#annex-b-national-guidance-on-how-budgets-and-responsibilities-should-be-shared-to-pay-for-section-117-aftercare-mental-health-act-1983<\/a><\/p>"}
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<\/p>
The Mental Health Act also provides safeguards to ensure patients are informed of their rights under the Act and their ability to challenge detention. This includes access to an independent advocate and mental health tribunals, which provides a significant safeguard for patients who have had their liberty curtailed under the Act.<\/p>
<\/p>
As public bodies, National Health Service commissioners and providers are expected to deliver the best possible outcomes for everyone who uses their services, including people detained under the Mental Health Act. This includes putting human rights principles and standards into practice, aiming to secure the full enjoyment of human rights for all and ensuring rights are protected and secured.<\/p>
<\/p>
It remains our intention to bring forward a Mental Health Bill when Parliamentary time allows.<\/p>"}
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The Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice provides statutory guidance to healthcare professionals on how they should carry out functions under the Mental Health Act, including compliance with human rights legislation and ensuring patients\u2019 rights are protected and ensured. The Care Quality Commission has a duty under the Mental Health Act to monitor how services exercise their powers and discharge their duties when patients are detained in hospital or are subject to community treatment orders or guardianship.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Mental Health Act also provides safeguards to ensure patients are informed of their rights under the Act and their ability to challenge detention. This includes access to an independent advocate and mental health tribunals, which provides a significant safeguard for patients who have had their liberty curtailed under the Act.<\/p>
<\/p>
As public bodies, National Health Service commissioners and providers are expected to deliver the best possible outcomes for everyone who uses their services, including people detained under the Mental Health Act. This includes putting human rights principles and standards into practice, aiming to secure the full enjoyment of human rights for all and ensuring rights are protected and secured.<\/p>
<\/p>
It remains our intention to bring forward a Mental Health Bill when Parliamentary time allows.<\/p>"}
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The Mental Health Act (MHA) code of practice sets out five guiding principles should be considered when making all decisions in relation to care, support or treatment provided under the Act, the first of which is least restrictive option and maximising independence.<\/p>
The powers under the MHA should only be used when necessary and for as short a period as possible. The MHA sets out that detention should be regularly reviewed, and provides opportunities for people (or their family, carers of advocate) to challenge detention to ensure it remains necessary, this includes scrutiny by hospital managers and by the mental health tribunal.<\/p>"}
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Statutory guidance will be published for those being discharged from mental health inpatient settings soon. This will set out how National Health Service bodies and local authorities can work together to support the discharge process from hospital and ensure the right support in the community.<\/p>
In July 2022, we published the Building the Right Support (BtRS) Action Plan, which sets out cross-government actions to strengthen community support and reduce reliance on mental health inpatient care for autistic people and people with a learning disability.\u202f\u202fThe BtRS Delivery Board is overseeing implementation of the Action Plan and includes representatives from across Government and public services who are working together to drive faster progress, identifying new actions and mitigations as appropriate.<\/p>
This year, we are investing an additional £121 million to improve community support as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, including funding for children and young people\u2019s keyworkers.<\/p>
The draft Mental Health Bill, published in June 2022, proposes the introduction of a new power, Supervised Discharge, which aims is to stop criminal justice patients detained under the Mental Health Act with specialised support needs from being in hospital unnecessarily. This will provide a route for these individuals to continue their care in a more appropriate and therapeutic setting, while appropriately managing the risks they may pose.<\/p>
Meanwhile HM Prison & Probation Service, acting on behalf of my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Justice, takes decisions on applications for section 17 leave for criminal justice patients following a robust risk-based assessment. This ensures affected patients do not need to remain in hospital beds and can continue their rehabilitation in a community-based setting which balances the need to protect the public, whilst recognising the rights of patients to receive treatment under the Mental Health Act.<\/p>"}
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We are continuing to pilot models of Culturally Appropriate Advocacy, investing up to £1.5 million to provide tailored support people from ethnic minorities to better understand their rights when they are detained under the Mental Health Act.<\/p>
The Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework was published by NHS England in October 2023. Rolling this out will support mental health trusts to improve access, experience and outcomes and reduce disparities for people from ethnic minority backgrounds. All mental health trusts will be required to have a framework in place by March 2025.<\/p>
Between 1 December 2018 and 31 March 2023, there were 218,219 detentions under the Mental Health Act. It is important to note that the number of detentions is not the same as the number of people detained as some people might have been detained more than once during the period.<\/p>"}
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The Home Office collects and publishes data on detentions under section 135 and section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, by financial year, as part of the Police Powers and Procedures statistical bulletin.<\/p>
The most recent data, for the year ending March 2022, are available here:<\/p>
Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)<\/a><\/p>Number of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983, by year and legislation, England and Wales1,2<\/sup>, 2020/21 to 2021/22<\/strong><\/p>Year ending\u2026<\/strong><\/p><\/td>Legislation<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>Section 136<\/p><\/td> | Section 1353<\/sup><\/p><\/td><\/tr>March 2021<\/p><\/td> | 33,883<\/p><\/td> | 2,691<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | March 2022<\/p><\/td> | 36,529<\/p><\/td> | 2,901<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> Notes:<\/em><\/p>- Section 136 - Excludes Dyfed-Powys who were unable to provide data in 2020/21 and only provided partial data in 2021/22. Including Dyfed-Powys, there were 36,594 detentions in 2021/22.<\/em><\/li>
- Section 135 \u2013 Excludes 6 forces who were unable to provide data in either year (Dyfed-Powys, Merseyside, Sussex, Cheshire, Hampshire and Devon and Cornwall police forces).<\/em><\/li>
- Data for section 135 is labelled as Experimental Statistics due to data quality issues, therefore should be interpreted with caution.<\/em><\/li><\/ol>
Data are not available broken down by month.<\/p> The section 136 data includes a breakdown by place of safety that the person was first taken to, such as A&E. However, data on the amount of time police officers spend at the place of safety are not collected.<\/p> Data for the year ending March 2023 will be published in Autumn 2023.<\/p>"}
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