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What happens when you get sectioned? - Patient

(4 days ago) However, once doctors think you are well enough to leave, you can no longer be held under the Mental Health Act, and staff should start planning your ongoing care. If you have been detained under Section 3, you have the right to free aftercare, which can cover healthcare, social care and free specialist … See more

https://patient.info/news-and-features/what-happens-when-you-get-sectioned

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Mental Health Act - NHS

(5 days ago) WEBThe Mental Health Act (1983) is the main piece of legislation that covers the assessment, treatment and rights of people with a mental health disorder. You can read the Mental …

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/social-care-and-your-rights/mental-health-and-the-law/mental-health-act/

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What is a Section 3 of the Mental Health Act? - LSCft

(6 days ago) WEBSection 3 of the Mental Health Act is commonly known as treatment order, it allows for the detention of the service user for treatment in the hospital based on certain criteria and …

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/about-us/mental-health-act/understanding-mental-health-act/what-section-3-mental-health-act

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About sectioning - Mind

(5 days ago) WEBUnder section 117, health authorities and local social services have a legal duty to provide free aftercare for people who have been discharged under Mental Health Act sections …

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/sectioning/about-sectioning/

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Sectioning (2020) - Word version - Mind

(6 days ago) WEBQuick facts. Being sectioned means that you are kept in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983. You can be sectioned if your own health or safety are at risk, or to protect …

https://www.mind.org.uk/media-a/6155/sectioning-2020.pdf

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What is the Mental Health Act? - Rethink Mental Illness

(Just Now) WEBThe Mental Health Act This section is about detention under the Mental Health Act 1983. This is sometimes called ‘sectioning’. We explain why you may be detained, and …

https://rethink.org/advice-and-information/rights-restrictions/mental-health-laws/mental-health-act/

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The facts about sectioning under the Mental Health Act

(4 days ago) WEB20 July 2015. Thinkstock. When 26-year-old Jenny was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, she says she felt scared, alone and "terrified she'd never be let out". The act was used more than

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-33158533

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What does it mean to be sectioned? - Mind and Soul Foundation

(5 days ago) WEBThe exact definition under the Mental Health Act is ‘any disorder or disability of the mind’. As you can see, this is a rather wide definition. You do not need to have committed a …

https://www.mindandsoulfoundation.org/Articles/424819/Mind_and_Soul/Articles/What_does_it_mean_to_be_sectioned.aspx

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Section 3 - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

(2 days ago) WEBEach time the Section 3 is renewed, a review of your current care and treatment is carried out by the Mental Health Act Managers. Your rights. When you are detained under …

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/support-advice/getting-help/your-rights/section-3/

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Sectioning - an overview - Mind

(7 days ago) WEBQuick facts. Being sectioned means that you are kept in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983. You can be sectioned if your own health or safety are at risk, or to protect …

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/sectioning/overview/

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Aftercare for patients under the Mental Health Act should be

(Just Now) WEBThese laws, designed for acute non-compliance, also fail to account for chronic mental illness. Section 2 detention lasts 28 days, and if recovery occurs in this …

https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q258

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GUIDANCE ON THE TREATMENT OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA …

(6 days ago) WEBanorexia nervosa under MHA 1983, section 3, on the grounds that such is necessary for his/her health. 2.2.5 Given that anorexia is capable of being a mental disorder within …

https://seed.charity/wp-content/uploads/MEDICAL-RISK-ANOREXIA-AND-THE-MENTAL-HEALTH-ACT-RR19.pdf

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Mental Health Act: 'I was sectioned and no one told me what was …

(6 days ago) WEBThe act is used to detain - section - someone if they are considered to be a risk to themselves or others. She was detained under the Mental Health Act twice, …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-55586447

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Discharge from the Mental Health Act - Rethink Mental Illness

(3 days ago) WEBIf you are under section 2, 3 or 37 you can: ask the Hospital Managers to discharge you, apply to a tribunal to appeal your section, get free representation from a mental health …

https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/rights-restrictions/mental-health-laws/discharge-from-the-mental-health-act/

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Mental health treatment without consent - Mind

(6 days ago) WEBShe is detained under section 3 of the Mental Health Act. It is lawful for her care team to give her food against her consent through a nasogastric tube (up her nose). This is …

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/consent-to-treatment/could-i-be-treated-without-my-consent/

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Patients' experiences of assessment and detention under mental …

(3 days ago) WEBWe both share an awareness that being detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA) can be a traumatic and distinctly untherapeutic process. ‘A frightening …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520528/

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The facts about sectioning under the Mental Health Act - BBC News

(2 days ago) WEB20 July 2015. Thinkstock. When 26-year-old Jenny was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, she says she felt scared, alone and "terrified she'd never be let out". The act was …

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-33158533

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Summary of the detaining sections - Mental Health Law Online

(7 days ago) WEB1 Section 2: admission for assessment. 2 Section 3: admission for treatment. 3 Section 4: emergency admission for assessment. 4 Section 5: holding powers. 5 Section 7: …

https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Summary_of_the_detaining_sections

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Sectioning - involving family members - Mind

(3 days ago) WEBIf your nearest relative doesn't think you should be sectioned, they have the right to object to you being sectioned, if you are being sectioned under section 3 of the Mental Health …

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/sectioning/family-members/

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Mental health aftercare if you have been sectioned - NHS

(1 days ago) WEBcompulsorily detained in hospital under section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983; sentenced by a criminal court to detention in a psychiatric hospital; If you have …

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/care-after-a-hospital-stay/mental-health-aftercare/

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Information for 11-18 year olds on being sectioned Mind - Mind

(6 days ago) WEBIf you have been sectioned under section 3, 37, 47 or 48, you have a right to support called section 117 aftercare. Section 117 support will be personal to you, depending on …

https://www.mind.org.uk/for-young-people/hospital/being-sectioned/

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Your rights when detained under the Mental Health Act in …

(6 days ago) WEBYour rights when detained under the Mental Health Act in England – Civil sections. 3. This guide is for people detained under section 2 and 3 of the mental health act or if you …

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/notification_of_rights_civil_updated.pdf

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