Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland

Annual reports

• Annual monitoring

• annual reports archive

  • annual report archive

• overview 2008-2009

  • annual report 2008-2009

  • additional findings from our monitoring of mental health law

    • consent to treatment under part 16 of the Mental Health (Care And Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
    • ethnicity
    • SocialCircumstancesReports

  • directors introduction

    • director's introduction

  • monitoring our priority areas

    • community based compulsory treatment
    • monitoring of priority areas
    • overrides of advance statements
    • services for young people

  • new orders granted in 2008-09

    • compulsory treatment orders
    • geographical variations in the use of the Act
    • nurses holding power
    • short-term detention
    • the use of compulsory care and treatment for mentally disordered offenders
    • trends in the use of civil compulsory treatment

  • our overview of the use of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000

    • age of adults at point of welfare guardianship order approval
    • causes of incapacity in guardianship
    • consent to medical treatment (part 5 AWI)
    • geographical variations in the use of welfare guardianship
    • length of welfare guardianship orders granted
    • our overview of the use of Adults With Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
    • our scrutiny of approved welfare guardianship
    • proposals for legislative change
    • trends in the use of welfare guardianship
    • welfare guardianship for adults under 25

  • overview of the Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 introduction

    • introduction

  • total numbers of 2003 Act orders in existence

    • total number of orders in existence

• overview 2009-2010

  • annual report 2008-2009

  • additional findings from our monitoring of mental health law

    • consent to treatment under part 16 of the Mental Health (Care And Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
    • ethnicity
    • SocialCircumstancesReports

  • directors introduction

    • director's introduction

  • monitoring our priority areas

    • community based compulsory treatment
    • monitoring of priority areas
    • overrides of advance statements
    • services for young people

  • new orders granted in 2009-2010

    • compulsory treatment orders
    • geographical variations in the use of the Act
    • nurses holding power
    • short-term detention
    • the use of compulsory care and treatment for mentally disordered offenders
    • trends in the use of civil compulsory treatment

  • our overview of the use of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000

    • age of adults at point of welfare guardianship order approval
    • causes of incapacity in guardianship
    • consent to medical treatment (part 5 AWI)
    • geographical variations in the use of welfare guardianship
    • length of welfare guardianship orders granted
    • our overview of the use of Adults With Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
    • our scrutiny of approved welfare guardianship
    • proposals for legislative change
    • trends in the use of welfare guardianship
    • welfare guardianship for adults under 25

  • overview of the Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003

    • introduction

  • total numbers of 2003 Act orders in existence

    • total number of orders in existence

Good practice guidance

• Quarterly monitoring

• consent to treatment

  • consent to treatment

• cross border transfers

  • cross border transfers

• freedom restriction and restraint

  • freedom restriction and restraint

• general hospital care

  • general hospital care

• new good practice guidance

  • new good practice guidance

• older people

  • older people

• suspension of detention

  • suspension of detention

• user and carer participation

  • user and carer participation

• working with AWI

  • working with the Adults With Incapacity Act

• young people

  • young people

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Investigations reports

• Quarterly monitoring

• A recipe for abuse

  • A recipe for abuse?

• Borders Inquiry Report

  • Borders Inquiry Report

• Inquiry into the care and treatment of Mr B

  • Inquiry into the care and treatment of Mr B

• Inquiry into the care and treatment of Mr C

  • Inquiry into the care and treatment of Mr C

• Inquiry into the care and treatment of Mr H

  • Inquiry into the care and treatment of Mr H

• Inquiry into the care of Mr J

  • Inquiry into the care of Mr J

• Inquiry into the care and treatment of Ms K

  • Inquiry into the care and treatment of Ms K

• Justice denied

  • Justice denied

• Loss of focus

• Mr L and Mr M inquiry

  • Mr L and Mr M inquiry

• Mr Q Investigation

  • Mr Q Investigation

• Mrs T investigation

  • Mrs T investigation

• Ms L investigation

  • Ms L investigation

• No fears as long as we work together

  • No fears as long as we work together

• Not my problem

  • Not my problem

• Too close to see

  • Too close to see

• Wrong place, wrong time

  • Wrong place, wrong time

MyReports

• my reports

Quarterly monitoring

• Quarterly monitoring
• quarterly statistics

• Quarterly Statistics 2008 Q4

  • Introduction

  • admissions of young people

    • admissions of young people to non-specialist facilities

  • adults with incapacity act

    • Adults With Incapacity Act

  • advance statement overrides

    • advance statement overrides

  • emergency detention

    • emergency detention and mental health officer consent

  • episode sequences and pre-detention status

    • episode sequences and pre-detrention status

  • orders granted by Health Board

    • orders granted by Health Board
    • table 10: Dumfries & Galloway
    • table 11: Fife
    • table 12: Forth Valley
    • table 13: Grampian
    • table 14: Greater Glasgow & Clyde
    • table 15: Highland
    • table 16: Lanarkshire
    • table 17: Lothian
    • table 18: Orkney
    • table 19: Shetland
    • table 20: State
    • table 21: Tayside
    • table 22: Western Isles
    • table 7: Scotland
    • table 8: Ayrshire and Arran
    • table 9: Borders

  • orders granted by Local Authority

    • orders granted by Local Authority
    • table 23: Aberdeen City
    • table 24: Aberdeenshire
    • table 25: Angus
    • table 26: Argyll and Bute
    • table 27: Edinburgh
    • table 28: Clackmannanshire
    • table 29: Dumfries & Galloway
    • table 30: Glasgow
    • table 31: East Ayrshire
    • table 32: East Dunbartonshire
    • table 33: East Lothian
    • table 34: East Renfrewshire
    • table 35: Eilean Sar
    • table 36: Falkirk
    • table 36: Fife
    • table 38: Glasgow City
    • table 39: Highland
    • table 40: Inverclyde
    • table 41: Midlothian
    • table 42: Moray
    • table 43: North Ayrshire
    • table 44: North Lanarkshire
    • table 45: Orkney
    • table 46: Perth & Kinross
    • table 47: Renfrewshire
    • table 48: Scottish Borders
    • table 49: Shetland
    • table 50: South Ayrshire
    • table 51: South Lanarkshire
    • table 52: Stirling
    • table 53: West Dunbartonshire
    • table 54: West Lothian
    • table 55: Local Authority not recorded/applicable
    • table 56: Scotland

  • orders granted

    • orders granted by type, age and gender

  • point prevalence

    • point prevalence

• Quarterly Statistics 2009 Q1

  • Introduction

  • admissions of young people

    • admissions of young people to non-specialist facilities

  • adults with incapacity act

    • Adults With Incapacity Act

  • advance statement overrides

    • advance statement overrides

  • emergency detention

    • emergency detention and mental health officer consent

  • episode sequence and pre-detention status

    • episode sequences and pre-detention status

  • orders granted by Health Board

    • orders granted by Health Board
    • table 10: Dumfries and Galloway
    • table 11: Fife
    • table 12: Forth Valley
    • table 13: Grampian
    • table 14: Greater Glasgow & Clyde
    • table 15: Highland
    • table 16: Lanarkshire
    • table 17: Lothian
    • table 18: Orkney
    • table 19: Shetland
    • table 20: State
    • table 21: Tayside
    • table 22: Western Isles
    • table 7: Scotland
    • table 8: Ayrshire and Arran
    • table 9: Borders

  • orders granted by Local Authority

    • orders granted by Local Authority
    • table 23: Aberdeen City
    • table 24: Aberdeenshire
    • table 25: Angus
    • table 26: Argyll and Bute
    • table 27: Edinburgh
    • table 28: Clackmannanshire
    • table 29: Dumfries & Galloway
    • table 30: Dundee
    • table 31: East Ayrshire
    • table 32: East Dunbartonshire
    • table 33: East Lothian
    • table 34: East Renfrewshire
    • table 35: Eilean Sar
    • table 36: Falkirk
    • table 37: Fife
    • table 39: Highland
    • table 40: Inverclyde
    • table 41: Midlothian
    • table 42: Moray
    • table 43: North Ayrshire
    • table 44: North Lanarkshire
    • table 45: Orkney
    • table 46: Perth & Kinross
    • table 47: Renfrewshire
    • table 48: Scottish Borders
    • table 49: Shetland
    • table 50: South Ayrshire
    • table 51: South Lanarkshire
    • table 52: Stirling
    • table 53: West Dunbartonshire
    • table 54: West Lothian
    • table 56: Scotland

  • orders granted

    • orders granted by type, age and gender

  • point prevalence

    • point prevalence

• Quarterly Statistics 2009 Q2

  • Introduction

  • admissions of young people

    • admissions of young people to non-specialist facilities

  • adults with incapacity act

    • Adults With Incapacity Act

  • advance statement overrides

    • advance statement overrides

  • emergency detention

    • emergency detention and mental health officer consent

  • episode sequence and pre-detention status

    • episode sequences and pre-detention status

  • orders granted

    • orders granted by type, age and gender

  • orders granted by Health Board

    • orders granted by Health Board
    • table 10: Dumfries and Galloway
    • table 11: Fife
    • table 12: Forth Valley
    • table 13: Grampian
    • table 14: Greater Glasgow & Clyde
    • table 15: Highland
    • table 16: Lanarkshire
    • table 17: Lothian
    • table 18: Orkney
    • table 19: Shetland
    • table 20: State
    • table 21: Tayside
    • table 22: Western Isles
    • table 7: Scotland
    • table 8: Ayrshire and Arran
    • table 9: Borders

  • orders granted by Local Authority

    • orders granted by Local Authority
    • table 23: Aberdeen City
    • table 24: Aberdeenshire
    • table 25: Angus
    • table 26: Argyll and Bute
    • table 27: Edinburgh
    • table 28: Clackmannanshire
    • table 29: Dumfries & Galloway
    • table 30: Dundee
    • table 31: East Ayrshire
    • table 32: East Dunbartonshire
    • table 33: East Lothian
    • table 34: East Renfrewshire
    • table 35: Eilean Sar
    • table 36: Falkirk
    • table 37: Fife
    • table 38: Glasgow City
    • table 39: Highland
    • table 40: Inverclyde
    • table 41: Midlothian
    • table 42: Moray
    • table 43: North Ayrshire
    • table 44: North Lanarkshire
    • table 45: Orkney
    • table 46: Perth & Kinross
    • table 47: Renfrewshire
    • table 48: Scottish Borders
    • table 49: Shetland
    • table 50: South Ayrshire
    • table 51: South Lanarkshire
    • table 52: Stirling
    • table 53: West Dunbartonshire
    • table 54: West Lothian
    • table 55: Not Recorded
    • table 56: Scotland

  • point prevalence

    • point prevalence

• Quarterly Statistics 2009 Q3

  • Introduction

  • admissions of young people

    • admissions of young people to non-specialist facilities

  • adults with incapacity act

    • Adults With Incapacity Act

  • emergency detention

    • emergency detention and mental health officer consent

  • episode sequence and pre-detention status

    • episode sequences and pre-detention status

  • orders granted by Health Board

    • orders granted by Health Board
    • table 7: Scotland
    • table 8: Ayrshire and Arran
    • table 9: Borders
    • table 10: Dumfries and Galloway
    • table 11: Fife
    • table 12: Forth Valley
    • table 13: Grampian
    • table 14: Greater Glasgow & Clyde
    • table 15: Highland
    • table 16: Lanarkshire
    • table 17: Lothian
    • table 18: Orkney
    • table 19: Shetland
    • table 20: State
    • table 21: Tayside
    • table 22: Western Isles

  • orders granted by Local Authority

    • orders granted by Local Authority
    • table 23: Aberdeen City
    • table 24: Aberdeenshire
    • table 25: Angus
    • table 26: Argyll and Bute
    • table 27: Edinburgh
    • table 28: Clackmannanshire
    • table 29: Dumfries & Galloway
    • table 30: Dundee
    • table 31: East Ayrshire
    • table 32: East Dunbartonshire
    • table 33: East Lothian
    • table 34: East Renfrewshire
    • table 35: Eilean Sar
    • table 36: Falkirk
    • table 37: Fife
    • table 38: Glasgow City
    • table 39: Highland
    • table 40: Inverclyde
    • table 41: Midlothian
    • table 42: Moray
    • table 43: North Ayrshire
    • table 44: North Lanarkshire
    • table 45: Orkney
    • table 46: Perth & Kinross
    • table 47: Renfrewshire
    • table 48: Scottish Borders
    • table 49: Shetland
    • table 50: South Ayrshire
    • table 51: South Lanarkshire
    • table 52: Stirling
    • table 53: West Dunbartonshire
    • table 54: West Lothian
    • table 55: Not Recorded
    • table 56: Scotland

  • orders granted

    • orders granted by type, age and gender

  • point prevalence

    • point prevalence

• Quarterly Statistics 2009 Q4

  • Q4 2009 Quarterly Statistics

Visit and monitoring reports

• monitoring reports
• Visit and monitoring reports

• A Hospital or a Home

  • a hospital or a home report

• Care and treatment for people on short term detention

  • Introduction

  • About this report

    • Who we are and what we do
    • Who we visited
    • Why we visited people on short term detention

  • Appendix

    • Appendix

  • Conclusions and recommendations

    • Our recommendations

  • What people told us and what we found

    • Care planning and review
    • Access to advocacy
    • Advance statements
    • Consent to treatment
    • Contact with professionals
    • General concerns
    • Named persons
    • Participation
    • Right of appeal
    • Routes into hospital
    • Specific concerns for individuals
    • Summary of key findings

• Greater Expectations

  • greater expectations report

• Greater expectations revisited report

  • Introduction

  • Conclusions and recommendations

    • Areas of good practice
    • Areas for improvement
    • Our recommendations

  • About this report

    • About our themed visits
    • Wards we visited
    • Who we are and what we do
    • Why did we visit people in rehabilitation and continuing care wards?

  • What people told us and what we found

    • Activities
    • Capacity and consent to treatment
    • Care planning and participation
    • Quality of the environment
    • Managing people's money
    • Physical healthcare
    • Involvement
    • Privacy, dignity,identity
    • Safety
    • Smoking
    • Substance misuse
    • Weight, diet and exercise

• LD and MHA census 2008

  • About this report

• Learning Disability Census Report 2010

  • Learning disability census report 2010

• Missed opportunities

  • Missed opportunities

• Older and wiser

  • older and wiser report

• Remember I'm Still Me

  • Remember I'm Still Me report

• Respect for diversity

  • respect for diversity report

• Rights, recovery and restriction report

  • Introduction

  • Conclusions and recommendations

    • Areas of good practice
    • Areas for improvement
    • Our recommendations

  • About this report

    • About our visits
    • Services visited
    • Who we are and what we do
    • Why we visited

  • What people told us and what we found

    • Activities
    • Care planning and participation
    • Consent to treatment and capacity
    • Environment
    • Physical healthcare
    • Management of people's money
    • Privacy dignity and identity

• Unnanounced visit report 2005

  • unannounced visit report 2005

• Where do I go from here?

  • Introduction

  • About this report

    • About our visits
    • Who we are and what we do

  • Other issues

    • admission and discharge
    • dementia and functional assessment units
    • mixed sex wards
    • multi-disciplinary care reviews
    • other issues
    • preventing readmission

  • Physical environment

    • Bedroom areas
    • Dining areas
    • Garden areas
    • Key message and recommendations
    • Signage

  • Provision of therapeutic activity

    • Activities care planning and participation
    • Provision of therapeutic activity and activity culture
    • Key messages and recommendations

  • Respect for the rights of the individual

    • Access
    • Consent
    • Food
    • Respecting individual rights - key messages and recommendations
    • Locking
    • Staff understanding of Part 6 of Adults with Incapacity Scotland Act 2000

• Young people and welfare guardianship

  • Young people and welfare guardianship_intro

  • About this report

    • How we gathered information for this report
    • What the law says about guardianship
    • Who we are and what we do

  • Our recommendations

    • Our recommendations

  • What people told us and what we found

    • Our analysis of MHO reports
    • Key findings
    • Managements' role in guardianship
    • Private guardians' experiences
    • Social workers' experiences

• Young people in mental health services

  • Introduction

  • About this visit programme

    • About our visits

  • Access to advocacy

    • Access to advocacy

  • Access to education and activities

    • Access to education_activities

  • Admission discharge and care models

    • AdmissionDischargeCare

  • Complex needs

    • Complex needs

  • Legal issues for young people

    • Legal issues

  • Other issues

    • Other issues

  • Our recommendations

    • Recommendations

  • Policy context

    • Policy context

  • Restraint and young people

    • Restraint&YoungPeople

  • Sixteen and seventeen year olds

    • Sixteen&SeventeenYearOlds

  • Staffing levels and training

    • Staffing&Training

  • What young people told us

    • What young people told us