{"id":22757,"date":"2018-12-20T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lancashirecarelibraryblog.com\/?p=22757"},"modified":"2018-12-20T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T08:00:18","slug":"modernising-the-mental-health-act-increasing-choice-reducing-compulsion-final-report-of-the-independent-review-of-the-mental-health-act-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2018\/12\/20\/modernising-the-mental-health-act-increasing-choice-reducing-compulsion-final-report-of-the-independent-review-of-the-mental-health-act-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernising the Mental Health Act: Increasing choice, reducing compulsion: Final report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Department of Health and Social Care, December 2018<\/strong><br \/>\nThe final report sets out recommendations covering 4 principles that the review believes should underpin the reformed Act:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>choice and autonomy \u2013 ensuring service users\u2019 views and choices are respected<\/li>\n<li>least restriction \u2013 ensuring the Act\u2019s powers are used in the least restrictive way<\/li>\n<li>therapeutic benefit \u2013 ensuring patients are supported to get better, so they can be discharged from the Act<\/li>\n<li>people as individuals \u2013 ensuring patients are viewed and treated as rounded individuals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The review looked at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>rising rates of detention under the Act<\/li>\n<li>the disproportionate number of people from black and minority ethnic groups detained under the Act<\/li>\n<li>processes that are out of step with a modern mental health care system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allcatsrgrey.org.uk\/wp\/download\/public_health\/mental_health\/MHA_reviewFINAL.pdf?platform=hootsuite#new_tab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here <\/a>to view the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Health and Social Care, December 2018 The final report sets out recommendations covering 4 principles that the review believes should underpin the reformed Act: choice and autonomy \u2013 ensuring service users\u2019 views and choices are respected least restriction \u2013 ensuring the Act\u2019s powers are used in the least restrictive way therapeutic benefit \u2013 &hellip; 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