Abstract
<p>The Mental Health Act Commission’s Tenth Biennial Report was laid before Parliament and published in December 2003. The report covers two years’ activity – financial years 2001 to 2003 – monitoring the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 as it relates to the detention and treatment of patients. In twenty chapters it deals with a range of issues pertinent to the care of mental health patients subject to compulsory treatment.</p><p>I will not attempt here to list systematically the points made by our report. Readers of this journal are likely already to have thumbed a copy of the report itself, or accessed it on the Commission website, and, if not, I hope that this article will encourage them to do so. Instead, I will seek to explain in more general terms the context and themes of the report, and what we would wish to see as its desired outcome.</p>
Highlights
Everybody with a concern in mental health services, in relation to patients who may be compelled to accept treatment, has a general sense of the purpose of the Mental Health Act Commission
The report covers two years’ activity – financial years 2001 to 2003 – monitoring the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 as it relates to the detention and treatment of patients
The legal remit of the Commission is stated in the Mental Health Act 1983, which requires the body to ‘monitor the exercise of the powers and discharge of duties conferred or imposed’ by that Act in respect of the detention of patients for psychiatric care and treatment[2]
Summary
Everybody with a concern in mental health services, in relation to patients who may be compelled to accept treatment, has a general sense of the purpose of the Mental Health Act Commission. The legal remit of the Commission is stated in the Mental Health Act 1983, which requires the body to ‘monitor the exercise of the powers and discharge of duties conferred or imposed’ by that Act in respect of the detention of patients for psychiatric care and treatment[2].
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