Fair Deal for Mental Illness
Coventry Friends Meeting House Hill Street, CV1 4AN
10.30 -3pm Saturday 16th May
Paul Corry from Rethink
Dr Lynne Friedli author of Mental health, resilience and inequalities Lynne's presentation
Lynne Jones MP chair of the parliamentary mental health group (tbc)
Hansard written answers 20th May 2009:
Mental Health Services
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 8 May 2009, Official Report, column 467W, on health services, in respect of which elective mental health services patients have the right to choose the organisation that provides their treatment; and what account will be taken of advance statements in the provision of care for those detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. [276018]
Phil Hope: The majority of patients, including those with mental health problems, are entitled to choose their provider when they are referred for their first consultant-led out-patient appointment. The right to choice does not extend beyond first out-patient appointment. Those detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 are excluded from the right to choice, but the code of practice to the Act specifies that
“[Decision-makers] must consider the patient's views, wishes and feelings (whether expressed at the time or in advance), so far as they are reasonably ascertainable, and follow those wishes wherever practicable and consistent with the purpose of the decision.”