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POLICY
Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 - aims to
provide mental health services at an earlier stage for individuals
who are experiencing mental health problems to reduce the risk of
further decline in mental health; make provision for care and
treatment plans for those in secondary mental health care and
ensure those previously discharged from secondary mental health
services have access to those services when they believe their
mental health may be deteriorating; extend mental health advocacy
provision beyond that which is currently required.
ACTION PLANS AND STRATEGIES
Programme for Government, was published in
October 2011 and outlines the outcomes the Labour Government wishes
to achieve in its term in office. The key actions for the next five
years specifically around mental health include:
·
Implementing the Mental Health Measure to ensure modern,
user-focused care is in place;
·
Reviewing access to the range of ‘talking treatments’ across
Wales;
· Ensuring
that funding for the all-Wales Veterans Health and Well-being
Service continues;
·
Continuing to improve care and support for people with dementia and
their families.
Together for
Health highlights plans for how the NHS Wales
will look in 2016. The main focus is on delivering improvement
within five years, promising that health will be better for
everyone, that access and patient experience will improve, and that
better service safety and quality will enhance health outcomes. The
document highlights in seven areas where the change must happen,
why and how:
- Improving health as well as treating sickness
- One system for health
- Hospitals for the 21st century as part of a well designed,
fully
- integrated network of care.
- Aiming at Excellence Everywhere
- Absolute transparency on performance
- A new partnership with the public
- Making every penny count
Breaking the Barriers, Action Plan May 2010 -
Better Support for Children and Young People with Emotional
Well-being and Mental Health Needs. This plan is an explicit
statement of intent, and sets out how the Welsh Assembly
Government, and the public services it oversees, will achieve the
strategic goals set out in Everybody’s Business
2001 (see below).
Public Health Wales Vulnerable Groups:
Draft Good Practice Framework for people with a learning
disability requiring planned secondary care 2010
- The work was commissioned from Public Health
Wales by WAG as part of their service level agreement. This report
aims to define best practice and improve health outcomes for people
with LD when they access secondary health care for a planned
hospital stay. It is primarily targeted at hospitals and for people
with LD, their families, carers and paid support staff.
WAG Raising the Standard: Revised Adult Mental Health
National Service Framework and Action Plan, 2005
-
This revised National Service
Framework (NSF) supplants the original one published in April 2002.
The 8 Standards and 44 Key Actions remain largely the same within
the revision however the whole document has been brought up to
date. Incorporated within this document are the Welsh Assembly
Government’s priorities for mental health services. It also
includes an Action Plan to implement the recommendations from a
number of reviews that have been undertaken and strategies
developed since the NSF’s original publication.
WAG Everybody's Business, Strategy Document
2001 - Improving Mental Health Services in Wales: child
and adolescent mental health services (CAHMS) Strategy. The
Strategy draws on the report of the independent Advisory Group set
up to
advise the Assembly on CAMHS. This
document provides National Assembly guidance against which services
will be monitored and assessed.
GUIDANCE
Mental Health (Wales) Measure: Code of Practice
to parts 2 and 3
The guidance document is
for local authorities, Local Health Boards ("LHBs"), and care
coordinators and any other persons in relation to their functions
under Parts 2 and 3 of the Measure. These Parts make provision in
relation to care and treatment planning and care coordination for
users of secondary mental health services, and in relation to the
provision of assessments for former users of secondary mental
health services.
This Code also gives guidance to LHBs, Local Authorities, their
staff, and care coordinators, in connection with the operation of
these Parts of the Measure and the subordinate legislation which
has been made in connection with it.
Mental Health (Wales) Measure Part
4: Delivering the Independent Mental Health
Advocacy Service in Wales
The guidance document provides
further information on the expanded IMHA scheme in Wales. From
Monday 2 April 2012, the Independent Mental Health Advocacy scheme
in Wales was extended so that all inpatients in Wales who are
receiving assessment or treatment for a mental disorder are
entitled to request support from an Independent Mental Health
Advocate (IMHA).
Mental Health (Wales) Measure: Guidance Part
1
The Guidance for Local Health
Boards and Local Authorities on the Establishment of Joint Schemes
for the Delivery of Local Primary Mental Health Support Services
has been circulated by the Welsh Government.
Mental Health (Wales)
Measure: Local Primary Mental Health Support
Services and Secondary Mental Health Services for the purposes of
the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 and related subordinate
legislation
The Guidance is
provided to Local Health Boards (LHBs) and local authorities in
connection with the operation of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure
2010, and the subordinate legislation which is being made in
connection with it. It is intended to be used by LHBs, local
authorities and others as an aid when considering the definition of
‘secondary mental health services’ as set out in the Mental Health
(Wales) Measure 2010 and the Mental Health (Secondary Mental Health
Services) (Wales) Order 2012, and in developing joint schemes for
the provision of local primary mental health support services under
Part 1 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.
Mental Health Act
1983: Sections 135 and 136
This guidance
supports chapter 7 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice
for Wales. It is intended to provide additional advice and support
when involved in the operation of sections 135 and 136 of the 1983
Act in Wales to:
- Practitioners within health and social care;
- Welsh Ambulance Service; and
- Police officers and forces.
Also available is the Record of Removal monitoring
form.
Mental Health Act 1983: Approval of Approved
Clinicians in Wales 2011 Guidance -
This
Guidance has been developed to assist individuals and
organisations that have interests and responsibilities relating to
the approval of Approved Clinicians 2008 (see below) to understand
and fulfil those responsibilities.
WAG Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Guidance
The documents listed below are now available for download:
Mental Health Act 1983 Approved Clinician (Wales)
Directions 2008 - The Welsh Ministers direct the Boards to
exercise the function of approving persons to be approved
clinicians.
WAG Delivering the Care Programme Approach in Wales July
2010 Guidance - This interim guidance is provided to
Local Health Boards (LHBs) and Local Authorities in Wales to advise
them on how they should proceed in with service planning under the
CPA. The guidance will also be useful to other statutory and
non-statutory agencies and organisations involved in the planning
and delivery of care to users of secondary mental health
services.
WAG The Role of Community Mental Health teams in
Delivering Community Mental Health Services: Interim Policy
Implementation Guidance and Standards, July 2010. The
guidance stresses the importance of ensuring that services
delivered by CMHTs are integrated and delivered in a co-ordinated
way, and that services set out clear and transparent access and
discharge criteria. This guidance is issued to support senior
managers of mental health services working in Local Health Boards
and Local Authorities in Wales. It should be read in conjunction
with Delivering the Care Programme Approach in Wales: Interim
Policy Implementation Guidance (see above).
INQUIRIES
NAfW Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee:
Post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for services veterans
February 2011, - report resulting from an inquiry into the
adequacy and suitability of services in Wales for armed services
veterans, including the Territorial Army, who suffer from PTSD.
REPORTS
Mental Health (Wales) Measure: Mapping of Local Mental
Health Services, February 2012
The Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care
(WIHSC) and the Welsh Government have produced a national report on
data gathered from Local Health Boards since September 2011 to map
all existing mental health services in primary care in Wales. It
provides baseline data which will help to determine the impact of
the Mental Health (Wales) Measure when reviewed. The data also
gives the local areas the baseline for the introduction of the new
services and it serves to inform local signposting and advice for
patients and carers.
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - Regulations made by
Welsh Ministers - The first two sets of Regulations
relating to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards of the Mental
Capacity Act 2005 have now been laid before the National Assembly
for Wales.