Welsh Statutory Instrument
2008
United Kingdom
The Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship, Community Treatment and Consent to Treatment) (Wales) Regulations 2008
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Procedure for and record of hospital admissions
Renewal of authority to detain
Detention after absence without leave for more than 28 days
Discharge of patients liable to be detained by responsible clinicians or hospital managers
Provision of information – patients liable to be detained
Procedure for and acceptance of guardianship applications
Visits to patients subject to guardianship
Duties of private guardians
Renewal of guardianship
Guardianship after absence without leave for more than 28 days
Discharge of patients subject to guardianship by responsible clinicians or responsible local social services authorities
Provision of information – patients subject to guardianship
Procedures for and record of community treatment orders
Extension of community treatment periods
Community treatment after absence without leave for more than 28 days
Recall and release of community patients
Revocation of community treatment orders
Discharge of community patients by responsible clinicians or hospital managers
Provision of information – community patients
Transfer from hospital to hospital or guardianship
Transfer from guardianship to guardianship or hospital
Assignment of responsibility for community patients
Transfer of recalled patients to hospital
Conveyance to hospital on transfer
Transfers from Wales to England and from England to Wales
Removal of patients
Provision of information – transfer
Provision of information – transfer in case of death, incapacity
Provision of information – assignment of responsibility for community patients
Performance of functions of nearest relative
Restriction on discharge by nearest relative
Delegation of hospital managers' functions under
Delegation of hospital managers' functions under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004
Delegation by local social services authorities
Forms of treatment under Part 4 of the Act
Forms of treatment under Part 4A of the Act
Certificates for administration of treatment
Inspection and opening of postal packets
Independent Advocacy Services
Revocations
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