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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2005 No. 309

MENTAL HEALTH

The Mental Health (Content and amendment of care plans) (Scotland) Regulations 2005

  Made 6th June 2005 
  Laid before the Scottish Parliament 8th June 2005 
  Coming into force 5th October 2005 

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 76(2)(b) and 76(4)(a) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Health (Content and amendment of care plans) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 5th October 2005.

    (2) In these Regulations, any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section bearing that number in the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.

Content of care plan
    
2.  - (1) The information relating to the care of a patient, which is prescribed for the purpose of section 76(2)(b) (information to be included in care plan in addition to the medical treatment), is-

    (2) Where the care plan is required to be amended in any of the circumstances prescribed in regulation 3, the information in the care plan shall be amended to take account of those circumstances.

Amendment of care plan
    
3.  - (1) The circumstances prescribed for the purpose of section 76(4)(a) (circumstances in which care plan must be amended) are-


RHONA BRANKIIN
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
6th June 2005



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


Section 76(1) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 ("the Act") provides that where a compulsory treatment order has been made in respect of a patient, the patient's responsible medical officer shall, as soon as possible after appointment, prepare a care plan relating to the patient and include it in the patient's medical records.

Section 76(2) of the Act requires the care plan to set out (a) the medical treatment which it is proposed to give and which is being given to the patient while the patient is subject to the compulsory treatment order; and (b) such other information relating to the care of the patient as may be prescribed. Regulation 2 prescribes this other information.

Regulation 3 prescribes the circumstances in which the plan must be amended.


Notes:

[1] 2003 asp 13.back



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 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 14 June 2005


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