MHA

Question 1

Front: What is the purpose of the Mental Health Act?

Answer 1

Back: Provides a legal framework for detaining and treating individuals with mental disorders to protect them and others.

Question 2

Front: What does Section 2 of the MHA allow?

Answer 2

Back: 28-day detention for assessment of mental disorder.

Question 3

what is section 3 ?

Answer 3

6-month detention for treatment.

Question 4

what is section 4 ?

Answer 4

72-hour emergency detention (1 doctor + AMHP).

Question 5

What is section 5 (2)

Answer 5

72-hour holding power (by a doctor in hospital).

Question 6

what is section 5 (4)

Answer 6

6-hour holding power (by a nurse in hospital).

Question 7

what is section 135

Answer 7

Police power to enter private property to remove a person to a place of safety.

Question 8

what is section 136

Answer 8

Police power to remove a person from a public place to a place of safety.

Question 9

what are community treatment orders? (CTO SECTION 17A)

Answer 9

Allows discharged patients to receive compulsory treatment in the community.

Can be recalled to hospital if conditions are not met.