Healthcare Assignment - Mental Health Act

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The Mental Health Act 1983
A.
The Mental Health Act 1983 is the legislation for the United Kingdom and has been
reviewed last in 2007 so that its application in England and Wales could be conducted. This
act provide the consumers with rights such as right of conduction of assessment and treatment
in health care facility, providing pathway to the civilians or criminals so that they could avail
their mental health treatment (Mind.org.uk 2019). The primary purpose of this act is to
provide the health care professionals with a criterion that would help them to understand the
detention level, assessment and development abilities so that treatment and other important
aspects could be identified effectively.
B.
One of the primary reason due to which this process was implemented in the care
process and was passed by the parliament was the inability of the health care professionals to
understand the level after which the patients affected with mental health complications need
to be detained (Mind.org.uk 2019). Hence, to develop the abilities and to understand the
importance of consent and mental health detention, the parliament passed the Mental Health
Act 1983 in the United Kingdom’s parliament so that the patients could be provided with
effective care and treatment prospect (Mind.org.uk 2019).
C.
While discussing about the mental health act and its implementation in the mental
health facilities, the controversies associated with this act should be discussed and analysed
so that the critical nature of the process could be identified (Oram et al. 2019). One of the
primary controversy associated with this process was the replacement act that was planned by

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the government in the 2007 amendment as it was seen that the changes that was implemented
by the government was harsh and draconian. The population rejected this law and hence the
government had to bring amendment to the existing law and hence, this was the complicated
situation that happened in the development and amendment of the law because of the
controversial nature of the process (Singh et al. 2017).
D.
The mental health act is the only act which is available in the mental healthcare
facilities of United Kingdom so that they could provide the patients with effective care in the
mental health treatment facilities (Mind.org.uk 2019). The government and health care
ministry tried to develop and implement a parallel regulation for its implementation in the
care process however, it was seen that the population rejected the mental health act because
of its draconian nature. Hence, due to this, the government did not aim to develop any other
mental health care regulations and develop processes associated with regulation amendments
so that critical care could be provided to the patients involved in the care process
(Mind.org.uk 2019). This was an important step for the government as development of new
law could have made the mental health act more applicable in the modern day complications.
However, the amendments that were implemented upon this legislation also helped to clear
the confusions associated with the processes and help the professionals to help the patients to
overcome their mental health complications (Mind.org.uk 2019).
E.
The Bourne wood was observed in the year 2009 in which it was seen that people who
lacked capacity, or are unable to take decision for them were unable to receive effective care
for themselves and hence their mental health condition affected (Davidson 2016). In such
condition, the government implemented a new facility so that all these complications could