Example sentences of "mental health act " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Harris was ordered to be detained under the Mental Health Act by Croydon Crown Court on 28 April last year . |
| 2 | Eleanor had once joked that it was sexist that men were called criminals for flashing , while women were treated under the Mental Health Act . |
| 3 | In the three years from 1984 to 1986 there were some 229 such cases , of which almost half were dealt with by a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983 ( with or without restrictions ) . |
| 4 | The Mental Health Act 1983 contains a somewhat similar offence of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a patient in a mental hospital , which has a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 5 | THE parents of an 11-year-old girl stabbed to death by a woman psychopath released early from hospital while under a Mental Health Act detention order have accepted an undisclosed payment from Doncaster Health Authority , writes Colin Wright . |
| 6 | Researchers are beginning to unravel some of the factors significant in the process of assessment for compulsory admission ( section assessments ) under the 1983 Mental Health Act . |
| 7 | Compulsory admission in England and Wales is carried out under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 8 | Even if the patient is compulsorily admitted under the Mental Health Act , and can therefore be deprived of his liberty , there is no authority that I know of to justify medical treatment against his express refusal . |
| 9 | The Medical Defence Union , in its pamphlet entitled ‘ consent to Treatment ’ , advises that ‘ a patient who is compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act must submit to treatment for his mental disorder whether or not he agrees ’ , but that ‘ if a compulsorily detained patient develops a condition unrelated to his mental disorder , then only such treatment as is immediately necessary to preserve his life and health may be given without his consent . ’ |
| 10 | For a few patients , compulsory admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit under an order of the Mental Health Act will be deemed necessary . |
| 11 | Under the new Mental Health Act , passed last year , a patient who objects to treatment is now guaranteed a second opinion — but treatment still goes ahead if both doctors agree . |
| 12 | Last June David Ennals tried to introduce an amendment to the Mental Health Act which would have allowed nurses to withdraw from ECT . |
| 13 | The Mental Health Act of 1959 enables a judge , with the approval of two doctors , to impose a hospital order in place of a prison sentence . |
| 14 | ( iii ) Persons under a mental incapacity — section 137 of the Mental Health Act 1959 now lays down a procedure whereby a seat can be vacated for this reason . |
| 15 | Similarly , not all authorities would permit nurses to use their Mental Health Act powers to detain patients . |
| 16 | Presentation of such patients in A&E departments must cause havoc , and although the police have powers to use the Mental Health Act , they may well be unwilling to become involved . |
| 17 | Instead of a 15-year jail sentence , Mr Justice Nolan ordered him to Rampton under the Mental Health Act . |
| 18 | The second relevant statute concerns guardianship under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 19 | In the former case provisions of the 1982 Mental Health Act such as guardianship may be more appropriate . |
| 20 | An alternative power to Section 47 is offered in the Mental Health Act 1983 ( S.7–10 Guardianship ) . |
| 21 | Elderly people with mental impairment who can no longer manage their own affairs may need assistance from a social worker in protecting their finances by consultation with the Court of Protection , under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 22 | The girl , consulting her Winnie the Pooh diary , said Mahfouz then sent her to learn the Mental Health Act . |
| 23 | All patients leaving psychiatric hospitals have a right to after care services , not just those who have been detained under sections 3 , 37 , or 47 of the Mental Health Act . |
| 24 | The Mental Health Act 1983 's exclusion of compulsory admissions for alcohol detoxification alone has led many to believe that alcohol related mental health problems are outside the Act , but this is not the case . |
| 25 | The Royal Commission on Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency introduced the concept of guardianship , and the Mental Health Act 1959 gave the guardian wide powers of control . |
| 26 | A white paper considered a changed form of guardianship , and ultimately the Mental Health Act 1983 incorporated a revised guardianship order with severely limited powers of control . |
| 27 | Detained under a section of the Mental Health Act in the first place , these patients had responded to treatment in hospital , and their leave was subject to a requirement that treatment should be continued outside hospital . |
| 28 | There have since been a series of proposals to re-establish some form of compulsory treatment in the community from the Mental Health Act Commission ( in 1986 and again in 1988 ) , the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1987 ) , and the British Medical Association ( 1989 ) . |
| 29 | None of these proposals found sufficient support to press the case forward , and at its conference in York in 1991 the Mental Health Act Commission voted against any specific recommendation . |
| 30 | It also prompted a government review of the Mental Health Act . |