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1 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 1 ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS Explanatory Notes and an Explanatory Memorandum are printed separately. Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure [AS INTRODUCED] CONTENTS PART 1 LOCAL PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICES Meaning of local mental health partners 1. Meaning of local mental health partners Local primary mental health support services 2. Joint schemes for the provision of local primary mental health support services 3. Duty to provide local primary mental health support services 4. Failures to agree schemes. Meaning of local primary mental health support services Primary mental health assessments 6. Duties to carry out primary mental health assessments: referrals for registered patients in primary care 7. Duties to carry out primary mental health assessments: other primary care referrals 8. Duties to carry out primary mental health assessments: secondary mental health care referrals 9. Conduct of primary mental health assessments. Action following a primary mental health assessment
2 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2 PART 2 COORDINATION OF AND CARE PLANNING FOR SECONDARY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS 11. Meaning of relevant patient Definitions 12. Meaning of mental health service provider Appointment of care coordinators 13. Duty to appoint a care coordinator for a relevant patient 14. Identification of the relevant mental health service provider for a relevant patient 1. Further provision about the appointment of care coordinators Coordination of mental health services 16. Duty to coordinate provision of mental health services 17. Functions of the care coordinator PART 3 ASSESSMENTS OF FORMER USERS OF SECONDARY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Assessment arrangements 18. Arrangements for assessment of former users of secondary mental health services 19. Duty to carry out assessments. Failure to agree arrangements Assessment entitlements 21. Entitlement to assessment 22. Assessments: the relevant discharge period 23. Provision of information about assessments 24. Purpose of assessment 2. Assessments: further provision Assessment process
3 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure Action following an assessment 27. Referrals relating to housing or welfare services 28. Determination of usual residence Supplementary PART 4 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY 29. Independent mental health advocates: Wales. Further provision about independent mental health advocacy for Welsh qualifying compulsory patients 31. Further provision about independent mental health advocacy for Welsh qualifying informal patients 32. Independent mental health advocates: supplementary powers and duties 33. Welsh qualifying compulsory patients 34. Welsh qualifying informal patients 3. Duty to give information about independent mental health advocates to Welsh qualifying compulsory patients 36. Duty to give information about independent mental health advocates to Welsh qualifying informal patients 37. Application of the Mental Health Act 1983 code of practice to Welsh independent mental health advocates PART GENERAL 38. Cooperative and joint working between Local Health Boards and local authorities 39. Information sharing 40. Amendment of the Local Authority Social Services Act Local Health Board to act under the guidance of the Welsh Ministers 42. Part 1: power to secure regional provision 43. Part 3: power to secure regional provision 44. Regulations as to the individuals who may carry out primary mental health assessments and act as care coordinators
4 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 4 PART 6 MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL 4. Meaning of secondary mental health services 46. Meaning of housing and welfare services 47. General interpretation 48. Orders and regulations 49. Consequential etc amendments 0. Repeals 1. Commencement 2. Short title Schedule 1 Consequential amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 Schedule 2 Repeals
5 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure [AS INTRODUCED] A Measure of the National Assembly for Wales to make provision about primary mental health support services; the coordination of and planning for secondary mental health services; assessments of the needs of former users of secondary mental health services; independent advocacy for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 and other persons who are receiving in-patient hospital treatment for mental health; and for connected purposes. PART 1 LOCAL PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICES Meaning of local mental health partners 1 1 Meaning of local mental health partners For the purposes of this Measure, the local mental health partners for a local authority area are the Local Health Board established under section 11 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 06 for an area which includes the local authority area; and the local authority for that area. Local primary mental health support services 2 2 Joint schemes for the provision of local primary mental health support services (1) The local mental health partners for a local authority area must take all reasonable steps to agree a scheme which identifies the treatment which is to be made available for that area for the purposes of this Part ( local primary mental health treatment ); and for securing the provision for that area of the services, including local primary mental health treatment, described in section ( local primary mental health support services ). (2) If a scheme is agreed, the partners must ensure that it is recorded in writing. (3) A scheme must identify the extent to which each of the partners is to provide local primary mental health support services.
6 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 6 1 (4) A scheme may provide that one of the partners is to provide all local primary mental health support services for the local authority area; primary mental health assessments are to be made available in respect of all or particular descriptions of the adults described in section 8(1); primary mental health assessments are to be carried out in respect of particular descriptions of adult who have been referred for assessment by a primary care provider in relation to whom the adult is not a registered patient. () If a scheme makes provision under subsection (4), it must also provide for particular descriptions of staff working in secondary mental health services to be able to refer an adult referred to in that subsection for a primary mental health assessment. (6) The partners may alter a scheme (including a scheme which has already been altered) if they agree the alterations. (7) If a scheme is altered under subsection (6), the partners must ensure that the alterations are recorded in writing Duty to provide local primary mental health support services (1) Unless section 4(1) applies, the local mental health partners for a local authority area must provide local primary mental health support services in accordance with a scheme for their area agreed under section 2; or a scheme for their area determined by the Welsh Ministers under section 4. (2) If a scheme has been altered under section 2(6) or 4(2) the services must be provided in accordance with the altered scheme. 4 Failures to agree schemes (1) If the local mental health partners for an area cannot agree a scheme under section 2 for so long as there is no agreement, the Local Health Board must decide what local primary mental health treatment is to be made available in the local authority area in question and provide local primary mental health support services for that area; the Local Health Board must inform the Welsh Ministers that agreement cannot be reached; the Welsh Ministers may determine a scheme and, if they do, must record it in writing. (2) If one partner wishes to alter a scheme, but the other does not, the scheme may, upon a request being made to the Welsh Ministers by either partner, be altered by the Welsh Ministers to such extent as the Welsh Ministers think fit.
7 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 7 (3) If the Welsh Ministers alter a scheme under subsection (2), they must record the alterations in writing. 1 2 Meaning of local primary mental health support services (1) Local primary mental health support services are the following the carrying out of primary mental health assessments in accordance with the following provisions of this Part; the provision for an adult, following a primary mental health assessment, of the local primary mental health treatment identified by the assessment as being treatment which might improve or prevent a deterioration in the adult s mental health; the making of referrals as described in section, following a primary mental health assessment, concerning other services the provision of which might improve or prevent a deterioration in the assessed adult s mental health; (d) the provision of information, advice and other assistance to primary care providers to meet the providers reasonable requirements for such information, advice and other assistance for the purpose of improving the services related to mental health which they provide or arrange; (e) the provision for patients and their carers of information and advice about the services available to them, to meet their reasonable requirements for such information and advice. (2) In subsection (1)(e) carers ( gofalwyr ) means members of the families of patients, and friends of patients, who are involved in their care; patients ( cleifion ) means adults who have, or may have, a mental disorder; services ( gwasanaethau ) means secondary mental health services; community care services (not being secondary mental health services); and housing or welfare services. Primary mental health assessments 3 6 Duties to carry out primary mental health assessments: referrals for registered patients in primary care (1) This section applies to an adult who does not fall within any of the descriptions in section 8(1); and in respect of whom a relevant referral for the purposes of this section is made. (2) A primary mental health assessment must be carried out in respect of the adult in accordance with section 9.
8 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure (3) A relevant referral for the purposes of this section means a request that an adult has a primary mental health assessment which meets the following conditions. (4) The first condition is that the request is made by a contractor with whom a general medical services contract has been entered into under section 42 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 06 by (i) (ii) the Local Health Board to which the request is made, or where the request is made to a local authority, the Local Health Board which is the authority s local mental health partner; a person with whom arrangements have been made under section 0 of that Act by (i) (ii) the Local Health Board to which the request is made, or where the request is made to a local authority, the Local Health Board which is the authority s local mental health partner; or a registered medical practitioner employed for the purposes of section 41 of that Act by (i) (ii) the Local Health Board to which the request is made, or where the request is made to a local authority, the Local Health Board which is the authority s local mental health partner. () The second condition is that the adult in respect of whom the request is made is a registered patient of the contractor, person or practitioner making the referral. (6) The third condition is that the request is made to a local mental health partner for the local authority area in which the adult is usually resident. (7) For the purposes of this section and sections 7 and 8 a request is to be treated as made by a contractor under a general medical services contract entered into under section 42 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 06, a person with whom arrangements have been made under section 0 of that Act, or a practitioner employed for the purposes of section 41 of that Act, if it is made with the contractor s, person s or practitioner s authority. 3 7 Duties to carry out primary mental health assessments: other primary care referrals (1) This section applies to an adult who does not fall within any of the descriptions in section 8(1); and in respect of whom a relevant referral for the purposes of this section is made. (2) A primary mental health assessment must be carried out in respect of the adult in accordance with section 9. (3) A relevant referral for the purposes of this section means a request that an adult has a primary mental health assessment which meets the following conditions.
9 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 9 1 (4) The first condition is that the request is made by a contractor with whom a general medical services contract has been entered into under section 42 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 06 by (i) (ii) the Local Health Board to which the request is made, or where the request is made to a local authority, the Local Health Board which is the authority s local mental health partner; or a person with whom arrangements have been made under section 0 of that Act by (i) (ii) the Local Health Board to which the request is made, or where the request is made to a local authority, the Local Health Board which is the authority s local mental health partner; or a registered medical practitioner employed for the purposes of section 41 of that Act by (i) (ii) the Local Health Board to which the request is made, or where the request is made to a local authority, the Local Health Board which is the authority s local mental health partner. () The second condition is that the request is made to a local mental health partner for the local authority area in which the contractor, person or practitioner carries on the majority of the contractor s, person s or practitioner s business or activities. (6) The third condition is that the adult in respect of whom the request is made falls within a category specified in the scheme for that local authority area under section 2(4) Duties to carry out primary mental health assessments: secondary mental health care referrals (1) This section applies to an adult who falls within any of the following descriptions an adult who is liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983; an adult who is subject to guardianship under that Act; an adult who is a community patient within the meaning given by section 17A of that Act; (d) an adult who is receiving secondary mental health services. (2) A primary mental health assessment must be carried out in respect of the adult in accordance with section 9 if the relevant scheme provides under section 2(4) that primary mental health assessments are to be made available in respect of all or specified categories of the adults referred to in subsection (1);
10 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure the adult falls within the scheme s description of those adults in respect of whom primary mental health assessments are to be made available; and a relevant referral for the purposes of this section is made. (3) A relevant referral for the purposes of this section means a request that an adult has a primary mental health assessment which meets the following conditions. (4) The first condition is that the request is made to a local mental health partner for the local authority area in which the adult is usually resident. () The second condition is that the request is made by a member of staff who falls within a category specified in the scheme for that local authority area under section 2() Conduct of primary mental health assessments (1) A primary mental health assessment is an analysis of an adult s mental health which identifies the local primary mental health treatment (if any) which might improve or prevent a deterioration in the adult s mental health (any treatment so identified must be provided: see sections 3 and ); and other services (if any) which might improve or prevent a deterioration in the adult s mental health. (2) The local mental health partners must ensure that the assessment is carried out by an individual who is eligible to carry out primary mental health assessments under regulations made under section 44. (3) The reference to other services in subsection (1) is a reference to secondary mental health services; services of a type that are normally provided by primary care providers; and community care services (not being secondary mental health services). 3 Action following a primary mental health assessment (1) Where a primary mental health assessment identifies under section 9(1) services which might improve, or prevent a deterioration in, an adult s mental health, the local mental health partner which carried out the assessment must if the partner considers that it would be the responsible authority for providing any of the services, decide whether or not the provision of any of those services is called for; and if the partner considers that it would not be the responsible authority for providing any of the services, make a referral to the person whom the partner considers would be the responsible authority for providing those services. (2) A referral under subsection (1) must inform the recipient that the local mental health partner making the referral has identified services which it considers might improve, or prevent a deterioration in, the adult s mental health; and
11 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 11 that the partner considers that the recipient would be the responsible authority for providing those services. (3) A person to whom a referral has been made must decide whether the provision of any of the services to which the referral relates is called for. (4) In this section responsible authority means the person who would be responsible for providing services if a decision were made to provide the services. () Nothing in this section requires or authorises a referral to be made to a responsible authority constituted, or acting exclusively, for an area wholly within England. PART 2 COORDINATION OF AND CARE PLANNING FOR SECONDARY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS Definitions 1 11 Meaning of relevant patient (1) For the purposes of this Part, an adult is a relevant patient if a mental health service provider provides a secondary mental health service for the adult. (2) An adult who does not fall within subsection (1) is also a relevant patient if the adult is under the guardianship of a local authority in Wales. 12 Meaning of mental health service provider (1) For the purposes of this Part, mental health service providers are the following the Welsh Ministers; a Local Health Board; a local authority in Wales. (2) But the Welsh Ministers are not to be treated as providing any service that is provided in the exercise of a function to which a direction given under section 12(1) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 06 relates. 2 Appointment of care coordinators 13 Duty to appoint a care coordinator for a relevant patient (1) The relevant mental health service provider for a relevant patient must appoint an individual as care coordinator for the patient to perform in relation to the patient the functions conferred on care coordinators by and under this Part. (2) The duty under subsection (1) is to be performed as soon as is reasonably practicable after
12 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 12 an adult becomes a relevant patient; or in a case where an individual ceases to be appointed as a relevant patient s care coordinator, cessation of that appointment. (3) Section 14 makes provision about the identification of the relevant mental health service provider for a relevant patient Identification of the relevant mental health service provider for a relevant patient (1) This subsection applies where a Local Health Board provides a secondary mental health service for a relevant patient; and a local authority does not provide such a service. (2) Where subsection (1) applies, the Board is the relevant mental health service provider. (3) This subsection applies where a Local Health Board provides a secondary mental health service for a relevant patient; and a local authority also provides such a service. (4) Where subsection (3) applies, the identification of one of the persons referred to in that subsection as the relevant mental health service provider is to be made in accordance with provision in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers. () Regulations under subsection (4) may provide for disputes as to the operation of the regulations to be determined by the Welsh Ministers; provide for the Welsh Ministers to make such determination as they think fit requiring payments to be made by one of the persons referred to in subsection (3) to the other person in the light of a determination referred to in paragraph ; identify a provider as the relevant mental health service provider pending a determination under paragraph. (6) Where neither subsection (1) nor subsection (3) apply, the relevant mental health service provider is if the patient is provided with a secondary mental health service by a local authority, the authority; if the patient is under the guardianship of a local authority, the authority; where neither paragraph nor apply but the Welsh Ministers provide a secondary mental health service for the patient, the Welsh Ministers.
13 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 13 1 Further provision about the appointment of care coordinators (1) A provider must not appoint an individual as a care coordinator under section 13(1) unless the individual is eligible to be appointed as a care coordinator under regulations made under section 44. (2) A provider must not appoint an individual as a care coordinator under section 13(1) from amongst the staff of another person without that person s consent. (3) Unless regulations made by the Welsh Ministers provide otherwise, an individual s appointment as a care coordinator does not come to an end as a result of a change in a relevant patient s relevant mental health service provider as identified under section 14. Coordination of mental health services Duty to coordinate provision of mental health services (1) For the purpose of improving the effectiveness of the mental health services provided to a relevant patient, a mental health service provider must take all reasonable steps to ensure that different mental health services which it provides for the patient are coordinated with each other; the mental health services which it provides are coordinated with any other such services provided for the patient by any other mental health service provider; the mental health services which it provides are coordinated with any services related to mental health provided for the patient by a voluntary organisation. (2) A mental health service provider may seek the advice of a patient s care coordinator as to how the provider should discharge its duty under subsection (1). (3) A care coordinator may at any time give advice to a mental health service provider as to how the provider should discharge its duty under subsection (1). (4) A mental health service provider must have regard to any advice given under subsections (2) and (3) in discharging its duty under subsection (1). () In this section mental health services are secondary mental health services; services under Part 1 of this Measure; things done in the exercise of a local authority s powers in section 8 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a person who is subject to the authority s guardianship. (6) In this section voluntary organisation means a body whose activities are carried on otherwise than for profit.
14 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure Functions of the care coordinator (1) A relevant patient s care coordinator must work with the relevant patient and the patient s mental health service providers with a view to agreeing the outcomes which the provision of mental health services for the patient are designed to achieve; with a view to agreeing a plan ( a care and treatment plan ) for achieving those outcomes; in connection with the review and revision of a care and treatment plan in accordance with provision in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers. (2) Where a care and treatment plan has been agreed, the care coordinator must record the plan in writing. (3) Subsections (4) and () apply if the outcomes referred to in subsection (1) or the plan referred to in subsection (1) cannot be agreed between the persons mentioned in subsection (1). (4) If the relevant patient has a sole mental health service provider, the provider must, having regard to any views expressed by the relevant patient, determine the outcomes which the provision of mental health services for the patient are designed to achieve and determine a plan for achieving those outcomes. () If the relevant patient has more than one mental health service provider, each provider must, having regard to any views expressed by the patient, determine the outcomes which the provision of mental health services by the provider are designed to achieve and determine a plan for achieving those outcomes. (6) The care coordinator must where a plan has been determined under subsection (4), record the plan in writing; where plans have been determined under subsection (), record all of them in writing in a single document. (7) The records made under subsection (6) are care and treatment plans for the purposes of subsection (1) and (8) to (). (8) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision as to the form and content of care and treatment plans; any persons whom the care coordinator is to consult in connection with the exercise of the coordinator s functions under subsection (1) or ; the persons to whom written copies of a care and treatment plan are to be provided (including in specified cases the provision of copies without the consent of the relevant patient to whom the plan relates); (d) the information to be provided by mental health service providers to an adult who has ceased to be a relevant patient. (9) The provision that may be made by regulations under subsection (1) includes (but is not limited to) provision
15 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 1 1 for care and treatment plans to be reviewed and revised in specified circumstances; conferring a discretion upon the care coordinator as to whether a review or revision is to be carried out; as to any persons whom the care coordinator is to consult in connection with a review or revision; (d) imposing obligations upon persons specified in the regulations in connection with a review or revision; (e) as to the provision of copies of revised plans to specified persons (including in specified cases the provision of copies without the consent of the relevant patient to whom the plan relates). () So far as it is reasonably practicable to do so, a mental health service provider must provide mental health services for a relevant patient in accordance with the patient s current care and treatment plan. (11) In this section mental health services has the same meaning as in section 16(). PART 3 ASSESSMENTS OF FORMER USERS OF SECONDARY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Assessment arrangements Arrangements for assessment of former users of secondary mental health services (1) The local mental health partners for a local authority area must take all reasonable steps to agree arrangements for the carrying out of assessments in accordance with sections 24 and 2 for adults who are usually resident in that area and are entitled to such assessments under section 21; and the making of referrals described in section 27(1) following such assessments. (2) If arrangements have been agreed, the partners must ensure that the arrangements are recorded in writing. (3) The arrangements must identify the extent to which each of the partners is to carry out those assessments and make those referrals. (4) The arrangements may provide that one of the partners is to provide all the assessments and make all the referrals; different aspects of an assessment, and different referrals following an assessment, will be undertaken by different partners. () The partners may alter their arrangements (including arrangements which have already been altered) if they agree the alterations. (6) If arrangements are altered under subsection (), the partners must ensure that the alterations are recorded in writing.
16 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure Duty to carry out assessments (1) Unless section (1) applies, the local mental health partners for a local authority area must carry out assessments and make referrals in accordance with the arrangements for their area agreed under section 18; or the arrangements for their area determined by the Welsh Ministers under section. (2) If arrangements have been altered under section 18() or (2), assessments must be carried out and referrals made in accordance with the altered arrangements. 1 Failure to agree arrangements (1) If the partners cannot agree arrangements under section 18 for so long as there is no agreement, the Local Health Board must carry out the assessments referred to in section 18(1) and make the referrals referred to in section 18(1); the Local Health Board must inform the Welsh Ministers that agreement cannot be reached; the Welsh Ministers may determine arrangements and, if they do, must record them in writing. (2) If one partner wishes to alter the arrangements, but the other does not, the arrangements may, upon a request being made to the Welsh Ministers by either partner, be altered by the Welsh Ministers to such extent as the Welsh Ministers think fit. (3) If the Welsh Ministers alter arrangements under subsection (2), they must record the alterations in writing. Assessment entitlements Entitlement to assessment (1) An adult is entitled to an assessment as described in section 24 if the adult requests either of the local mental health partners for the local authority area in which the adult is usually resident to carry out such an assessment; the adult has been discharged from secondary mental health services (whether or not the services were provided by the local mental health partner to whom the request for an assessment is made); the request is made within the relevant discharge period (see section 22); and (d) the local mental health partner to whom the request is made does not consider the request to be frivolous or vexatious. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an adult has been discharged from secondary mental health services if the adult was being provided with a secondary mental health service or services but is no longer, for whatever reason, being provided with any secondary mental health service.
17 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure Assessments: the relevant discharge period (1) The relevant discharge period in relation to an adult begins on the date on which the adult was discharged from secondary mental health services (within the meaning of section 21(2)); and ends upon the expiry of the period of time specified in regulations made for the purposes of this section by the Welsh Ministers. (2) The relevant discharge period also ends if, before the expiry of the period of time referred to in subsection (1), an event specified in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers occurs. 23 Provision of information about assessments (1) Where a Local Health Board discharges an adult from secondary mental health services, the Board must provide the adult with information in writing about entitlement to assessment under this Part if, at the date of discharge, no local authority is providing the adult with a secondary mental health service. (2) Where a local authority discharges an adult from secondary mental health services, the authority must provide the adult with information in writing about entitlement to assessment under this Part if, at the date of discharge, no Local Health Board is providing the adult with a secondary mental health service. (3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), a Board or authority discharges an adult from secondary mental health services when it implements a decision that the Board or authority no longer needs to provide the adult with any such service. Assessment process 2 24 Purpose of assessment An assessment under this Part is an analysis of an adult s mental health which identifies the secondary mental health services (if any) which might improve or prevent a deterioration in the mental health of the person being assessed; the community care services, not being secondary mental health services, (if any) which might improve or prevent a deterioration in the mental health of the person being assessed; and the housing or welfare services (if any) which might improve or prevent a deterioration in the mental health of the person being assessed. 3 2 Assessments: further provision (1) An assessment under this Part must be carried out as soon as is reasonably practicable after the request referred to in section 21(1) is made. (2) The local mental health partners must ensure that an assessment results in a single report in writing which records whether the assessment has identified any services in accordance with section 24; and
18 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 18 a copy of that report is provided to the adult who has been assessed within such period following completion of the assessment as is specified in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers. (3) Where a sole local mental health partner has carried out an assessment under this Part, the partner must, if it considers it appropriate to do so, provide a copy of the report to the other partner as soon as it is reasonably practicable to do so Action following an assessment (1) Subsection (2) applies where an assessment under section 24 or has identified secondary mental health services or community care services (not being secondary mental health services) which might help to improve, or prevent a deterioration in, an adult s mental health. (2) Where one of the local mental health partners would be the responsible authority in relation to any such service, that partner must decide whether the provision of the service is called for. (3) In this section responsible authority means the authority which would be responsible for providing services if a decision were made to do so Referrals relating to housing or welfare services (1) Unless subsection (2) applies, where a secondary mental health assessment has under section 24 identified a housing or welfare service which might help to improve, or prevent a deterioration in, an adult s mental health, the partner must ask the responsible service provider to consider whether to provide the service to the adult or, if that is not appropriate, whether to invite the adult to apply for the service. (2) Where the local authority mental health partner would be the responsible service provider in relation to such a housing or welfare service, the authority must decide whether the provision of the service is called for or, if that is not appropriate, whether to invite the adult to apply for the service. (3) In subsections (1) and (2), responsible service provider means a person carrying out activities in Wales who would provide the service if a decision were made to do so. Supplementary 3 28 Determination of usual residence (1) For the purposes of this Part, any question as to the local authority area in which an adult usually resides is to be determined in accordance with provision in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers. (2) The provision that may be made in regulations under subsection (1) includes (but is not limited to) provision conferring power to determine the local authority area in which an adult usually resides;
19 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 19 for deeming an adult to be usually resident in an area. PART 4 MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY Independent mental health advocates: Wales After section 1D of the Mental Health Act 1983 insert 1E Independent mental health advocates: Wales (1) The Welsh Ministers shall make such arrangements as they consider reasonable to enable persons ( independent mental health advocates ) to be available to help Welsh qualifying compulsory patients; and Welsh qualifying informal patients. (2) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision as to the appointment of persons as independent mental health advocates. (3) The regulations may, in particular, provide that a person may act as an independent mental health advocate only in such circumstances, or only subject to such conditions, as may be specified in the regulations; for the appointment of a person as an independent mental health advocate to be subject to approval in accordance with the regulations. (4) In making arrangements under this section, the Welsh Ministers shall have regard to the principle that any help available to a patient under the arrangements should, so far as practicable, be provided by a person who is independent of any person who is professionally concerned with the patient s medical treatment; or falls within a description specified in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers. () For the purposes of subsection (4) above, a person is not to be regarded as professionally concerned with a patient s medical treatment merely because he is representing him in accordance with arrangements under section 3 of the Mental Capacity Act 0; or of a description specified in regulations under this section. (6) Arrangements under this section may include provision for payments to be made to, or in relation to, persons carrying out functions in accordance with the arrangements. (7) Regulations under this section and sections 1F to 1H may make different provision for different cases; may make provision which applies subject to specified exceptions;
20 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure may include transitional, consequential, incidental or supplemental provision Further provision about independent mental health advocacy for Welsh qualifying compulsory patients After section 1E of the Mental Health Act 1983 insert 1F Arrangements under section 1E for Welsh qualifying compulsory patients (1) The help available to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient under arrangements under section 1E shall include help in obtaining information about and understanding the provisions of this Act by virtue of which he is a qualifying compulsory patient; any conditions or restrictions to which he is subject by virtue of this Act; what (if any) medical treatment is given to him or is proposed or discussed in his case; (d) why it is given, proposed or discussed; (e) (f) the authority under which it is, or would be, given; and the requirements of this Act which apply, or would apply, in connection with the giving of the treatment to him. (2) The help available under the arrangements to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient shall also include help in obtaining information about and understanding any rights which may be exercised under this Act by or in relation to him; help (by way of representation or otherwise) (i) (ii) in exercising the rights referred to in paragraph ; for patients who wish to become involved, or more involved, in decisions made about their care or treatment, or care or treatment generally; (iii) for patients who wish to complain about their care or treatment; the provision of information about other services which are or may be available to the patient; (d) other help specified in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers. 31 Further provision about independent mental health advocacy for Welsh qualifying informal patients After section 1F of the Mental Health Act 1983 insert
21 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure G Arrangements under section 1E for Welsh qualifying informal patients (1) The help available to a Welsh qualifying informal patient under arrangements under section 1E shall include help in obtaining information about and understanding what (if any) medical treatment is given to him or is proposed or discussed in his case; why it is given, proposed or discussed; the authority under which it is, or would be, given. (2) The help available under the arrangements to a Welsh qualifying informal patient shall also include help (by way of representation or otherwise) (i) (ii) for patients who wish to become involved, or more involved, in decisions made about their care or treatment, or care or treatment generally; for patients who wish to complain about their care or treatment; the provision of information about other services which are or may be available to the patient; other help specified in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers Independent mental health advocates: supplementary powers and duties After section 1G of the Mental Health Act 1983 insert 1H Independent mental health advocates for Wales: supplementary powers and duties (1) For the purpose of providing help to a patient in accordance with arrangements made under section 1E, an independent mental health advocate may visit and interview the patient in private; visit and interview (i) (ii) any person who is professionally concerned with his medical treatment; any other person who falls within a description specified in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers; require the production of and inspect any records relating to his detention, treatment or assessment in any hospital or registered establishment or to any after-care services provided for him under section 117 above; (d) require the production of and inspect any records of, or held by, a local social services authority which relate to him.
22 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure (2) But an independent mental health advocate is not entitled to the production of, or to inspect, records in reliance on subsection (1) or (d) above unless in a case where the patient has capacity or is competent to consent, he does consent; or in any other case, the production or inspection would not conflict with a decision made by a donee or deputy or the Court of Protection and the person holding the records, having regard to such matters as may be prescribed in regulations under section 1E above, considers that (i) (ii) the records may be relevant to the help to be provided by the advocate; the production or inspection is appropriate. (3) For the purpose of providing help to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient in accordance with the arrangements, an independent mental health advocate shall comply with any reasonable request made to him by any of the following for him to visit and interview the patient the person (if any) appearing to the advocate to be the patient s nearest relative; the responsible clinician for the purposes of this Act; an approved mental health professional; (d) a registered social worker who is professionally concerned with the patient s care, treatment or assessment; (e) where the patient is liable to be detained in a hospital or registered establishment, the managers of the hospital or establishment; (f) the patient s donee or deputy. (4) For the purpose of providing help to a Welsh qualifying informal patient in accordance with the arrangements, an independent mental health advocate shall comply with any reasonable request made to him by any of the following for him to visit and interview the patient the managers of the hospital or establishment in which the patient is an in-patient; any person appearing to the advocate to whom the request is made to be the patient s carer; the patient s donee or deputy; (d) a registered social worker who is professionally concerned with the patient s care, treatment or assessment. () But nothing in this Act prevents the patient from declining to be provided with help under the arrangements. (6) In subsection (2) above the reference to a patient who has capacity is to be read in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 0.
23 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure 23 1 (7) In subsection (4) above carer, in relation to a Welsh qualifying informal patient, means an individual who provides or intends to provide a substantial amount of care on a regular basis for the patient, but does not include any individual who provides, or intends to provide care by virtue of a contract of employment or other contract with any person or as a volunteer for a body (whether or not incorporated); registered social worker means a person included in the principal part or the visiting European part of a register maintained under section 6(1) of the Care Standards Act 00. (8) In subsections (2) to (4) above the reference to a donee is to a donee of a lasting power of attorney (within the meaning of section 9 of the Mental Capacity Act 0) created by the patient, where the donee, in making the decision referred to in subsection (2) or the request referred to in subsection (3) or (4), is acting within the scope of his authority and in accordance with that Act; the reference to a deputy is to a deputy appointed for the patient by the Court of Protection under section 16 of that Act, where the deputy, in making the decision referred to in subsection (2) or the request referred to in subsection (3) or (4), is acting within the scope of his authority and in accordance with that Act Welsh qualifying compulsory patients After section 1H of the Mental Health Act 1983 insert 1I Welsh qualifying compulsory patients (1) This section applies for the purposes of section 1E above. (2) A patient is a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient if he is liable to be detained under this Act (other than under section 13 or 136 below) and the hospital or registered establishment in which he is liable to be detained is situated in Wales; detained under section 13 or 136 below in a place of safety situated in Wales; subject to guardianship under this Act and the area of the responsible local social services authority within the meaning of section 34(3) above is situated in Wales; or (d) a community patient and the responsible hospital is situated in Wales. (3) A patient is also a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient if the patient is to be regarded as being in Wales for the purposes of this subsection and
24 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure not being a qualifying patient falling within subsection (2) above, he discusses with a registered medical practitioner or approved clinician the possibility of being given a form of treatment to which section 7 above applies; or not having attained the age of 18 years and not being a qualifying patient falling within subsection (2) above, he discusses with a registered medical practitioner or approved clinician the possibility of being given a form of treatment to which section 8A above applies. (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), a patient is to be regarded as being in Wales if that has been determined in accordance with arrangements made for the purposes of that subsection and section 1C(3), and published, by the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers. () Where a patient who is a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient falling within subsection (3) above is informed that the treatment concerned is proposed in his case, he remains a qualifying patient falling within that subsection until the proposal is withdrawn; or 34 Welsh qualifying informal patients the treatment is completed or discontinued. After section 1I of the Mental Health Act 1983 insert 1J Welsh qualifying informal patients (1) This section applies for the purposes of section 1E above. (2) A patient is a Welsh qualifying informal patient if he is admitted as an in-patient for treatment for, or assessment in relation to, mental disorder to a hospital or registered establishment situated in Wales (whether or not the patient is also admitted for any other purpose) without any application, order, direction or report rendering him liable to be detained under this Act. 3 Duty to give information about independent mental health advocates to Welsh qualifying compulsory patients After section 1J of the Mental Health Act 1983 insert 1K Duty to give information about independent mental health advocates to Welsh qualifying compulsory patients (1) The responsible person in relation to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient (within the meaning given by section 1I above) shall take such steps as are practicable to ensure that the patient understands that help is available to him from an independent mental health advocate; and how he can obtain that help.
25 Proposed Mental Health (Wales) Measure (2) In subsection (1) above, the responsible person means in relation to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient falling within section 1I(2) above (other than one also falling within paragraph below), the managers of the hospital or registered establishment in which he is liable to be detained; or in relation to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient falling within section 1I(2) above and conditionally discharged by virtue of section 42(2), 73 or 74 above, the responsible clinician; in relation to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient falling within section 1I(2) above (i) (ii) where the place of safety is a hospital, the managers of the hospital; where the place of safety is an independent hospital or care home, the person registered as the provider of the home under Part II of the Care Standards Act 00; (iii) where the place of safety is residential accommodation provided by a local social services authority under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948 (other than accommodation which is a care home), the authority; (iv) (v) where the place of safety is a police station, the relevant custody officer; where the place of safety is any other suitable place the occupier of which is willing temporarily to receive the patient, the occupier; (d) in relation to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient falling within section 1I(2) above, the responsible local social services authority within the meaning of section 34(3) above; (e) (f) in relation to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient falling within section 1I(2)(d) above, the managers of the responsible hospital; in relation to a Welsh qualifying compulsory patient falling within section 1I(3) above, the registered medical practitioner or approved clinician with whom the patient first discusses the possibility of being given the treatment concerned. (3) The steps to be taken under subsection (1) above shall be taken where the responsible person falls within subsection (2) above, as soon as practicable after the patient becomes liable to be detained; where the responsible person falls within subsection (2) above, as soon as practicable after the conditional discharge;