Our monitoring & visit reports
Monitoring reports
When we have concerns about the rights and welfare of people subject to a particular part of the law, or who use a particular kind of service, we make further inquiries. This can be desk based, using information that is supplied to us by law, through telephone interviews, or through visits to individuals whose care and treatment is being delivered under mental health or incapacity law.
This work helps us to get a more detailed picture of what is happening across Scotland and what may need to change in order to ensure care and treatment is in line with the law and best ethical and professional practice.
Each year we continue to review how many young people are admitted to adult wards without appropriate input from child and adolescent mental health practitioners and where an advance statement has been overridden.Our stakeholders continue to highlight these areas as a priority.
During 2010-11, we specifically looked at cases where people had been on a community order for more than 2 years and we looked at consent to treatment. (report is titled Not properly authorised).
In 2011-12, we are focussing on Emergency detention certificates and Section 47 certificates.
Themed visits
This section of the site also contains reports from our themed visits to individuals receiving care and treatment from mental health and learning disability services across Scotland. During themed visits we carry out interviews with individuals, staff and review care notes. We also make an assessment of the environment of care. The people we talk to aren't always receiving care and treatment under mental health or incapacity law. Their views help us compare the types of care and treatment that a person might be able to expect in different parts of the country on any given day.
The menu bar on the left contains links to our monitoring and themed visit reports. Click on the red text to go to the relevant report.By registering with the site you will receive an e-mail to let you know when new monitoring reports have been added.
For more information on our monitoring work, please visit www.mwcscot.org.uk