Example sentences of "mental health [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With the development of community mental health teams , community psychiatric nurses ( CPNs ) are more likely to meet people with bulimia , most of whom are women .
2 Community mental handicap and mental health teams are now much more geared to supporting carers as well as clients , and would be glad to offer any help they can .
3 It is doubtful if even after so many years of revolving door policies or community mental health teams , SSDs do have an infrastructure for attractive community-based services .
4 Service teams should comprise people from different professional backgrounds , although it is still not uncommon to come across teams called ‘ community mental health teams ’ which consist entirely of nurses from the health service or of social workers from the local authority .
5 Mental health teams are essential to the provision of a good service but on their own , without the back-up of others , health professionals may achieve little .
6 Half had been discharged quite recently from an acute psychiatric admission ward — hostels provide a cheap and available alternative to a permanent home and avoid the mental health teams having to plan a more satisfactory discharge .
7 The sample of staff was structured to reflect the organization of services in each district , for example , where several community mental health teams were operating , we tried to include representatives from each team , and to balance our data between people concerned with care of elderly people and those involved with younger service users .
8 In all of the districts under study the care of people under 65 or 70 years of age was organized by community mental health teams , dispersed throughout the district .
9 Will local authority employees on community mental health teams operate care management while their colleagues operate care programming ?
10 The way these rooms are used is the subject of critism by the mental health commissioners .
11 We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information .
12 Is it seriously suggested that she break with her old allies because of her lack of sympCOMMAND FILE ABORTED. athy for their mental health reforms ?
13 Mental health row lingers
14 We also analysed the mental health component of the community care plans for 1992/93 of a one-in-two sample of local authorities ( 20 shires , 18 metropolitan districts and 15 London boroughs ) .
15 The leave of absence arrangements allowed under section 18 of the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 enables the psychiatrist and mental health officer to ensure a higher level of supervision of vulnerable patients in the community than is permitted under the Mental Health Act 1983 .
16 In 1978 , Mr Chance became liaison officer of a team for the mentally handicapped at North Tees Hospital , going on to become mental health officer to Cleveland county up till his retirement eight years ago .
17 His publications include Mental Health : The Role of the Approved Social Worker ( University of Sheffield Press , 1990 ) and Mental Health Work in the Community : Theory and Practice in Social Work and Community Psychiatric Nursing ( Falmer , 1991 ) .
18 other remark , which I ca n't let go unchallenged , that ninety percent of mental health work in the m community is looking after the worried well .
19 They ascribe a significant role in this respect to mental health specialists , particularly ASWs .
20 Mr Harris was ordered to be detained under the Mental Health Act by Croydon Crown Court on 28 April last year .
21 Eleanor had once joked that it was sexist that men were called criminals for flashing , while women were treated under the Mental Health Act .
22 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 ) .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Compulsory admission in England and Wales is carried out under the Mental Health Act 1983 .
27 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 .
28 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 . ’
29 For a few patients , compulsory admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit under an order of the Mental Health Act will be deemed necessary .
30 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 .
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