scholarly journals The Home Office Mental Health Unit

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 450-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayanth Srinivas ◽  
Sarah Denvir ◽  
Martin Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Home Office ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Mental Health Unit ◽  
Structure And Functions

Over the years, the number of mentally disordered offenders in England and Wales subject to restriction orders has steadily increased. The Home Secretary, through the Mental Health Unit at the Home Office, is responsible for overseeing the treatment of these individuals. As psychiatrists work in partnership with the Mental Health Unit in the treatment of these patients, it is essential to understand the Unit's role and functions. In this article, we describe the philosophy, structure and functions of the Mental Health Unit and its statutory role in the care of mentally disordered offenders subject to restriction orders.

scholarly journals The Home Office Mental Health Unit

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 742-743
Author(s):  
J. M. Potts
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Separate Section ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation ◽  
Mental Health Unit

On 1 April the mental health section of the Home Office's C3 Division was renamed “Mental Health Unit”, as part of a wider initiative to streamline the Department and give more meaningful titles to the various different areas of work. The responsibilities of our Unit remain the same, however. First, we deal with the cases of restricted patients under mental health legislation. As well as advising Ministers or taking decisions on their behalf about leave, transfers and discharge, the Unit also authorises the transfer of mentally disordered prisoners to hospital. This prison transfer work is focused in a separate section of the Unit which is able to provide a very rapid response to urgent requests for transfer warrants. The number of transfers has gone up from 337 in 1990 to over 700 in each of the last three years.

scholarly journals Invited commentary on The mental health of prisoners

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Tony Maden
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Government

Psychiatrists have always been concerned about the mental health of prisoners. If they did not devote much energy to their treatment, it was only because they had more-pressing problems, including how to squeeze ten patients into nine beds. In any case, it was someone else's job to look after prisoners. Luke Birmingham's article (Birmingham, 2003, this issue) could not be more timely, as this situation has now changed. With the publication of The Future Organisation of Prison Healthcare (Prison Service & NHS Executive Working Group, 1999), and the creation of a joint Department of Health and Home Office task force, the Government has made it clear that the problem of mentally disordered offenders belongs to the National Health Service (NHS). There is a plan, there is a partnership and there are targets. Can those of us who have been worrying about prisoners with mental illness sit back and relax, as the solution unfolds?

scholarly journals The Totalising Nature of Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services in England and Wales

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Markham
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Practitioner Attitudes ◽  
Recovery Potential

This evidence-based opinion piece explores the totalising risk averse nature of secure and forensic mental health services and associated iatrogenic harms in England and Wales. Drawing on the research literature I consider the various influences, both external and internal which impact on the provision of such services and how both the therapeutic alliance and recovery potential for patients may be improved. Especial attention is paid to the deployment of restrictive practise, practitioner attitudes, the potential for non-thinking, and how these may impact on decision-making and the care and treatment of mentally disordered offenders.

Implementing violence and incident reporting measures on a forensic mental health unit

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 973-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Woods ◽  
Mark Olver ◽  
Marelize Muller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Incident Reporting ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
Mental Health Unit
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