Mental Health Act Commission Twelfth Biennial Report - Risk, Rights, Recovery February 9, 2008
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Mental Health Act Commission Twelfth Biennial Report - Risk, Rights, Recovery finds that there are severe funding issues faced by providers of mental health services in that:
- Patients deemed to be a threat to themselves or others are being denied hospital beds while commissioners disagree with regard to funding.
- The Mental Health Act Commission has found practitioners are being told to delay sectioning people with urgent mental health needs until primary care trusts ascertain who should pay for their treatment.
- The problem is caused by high bed occupancy levels and the need for PCTs to balance budgets.
- This has encouraged PCTs not to detain patients who have travelled from other areas until the home PCT has agreed to pay.
Thse practices are unsuprisingly condemned in this report.
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