Yesterday, the 01st July 2022, the Health and Care Act 2022 became law and this changes some of the terms and language used by the NHS for their structures.  Until now, every inch of England was covered by a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and those bodies carried legal responsibility for the commissioning of most healthcare […]

More than three years after the publication of the Wessely Review of the Mental Health Act, the Mental Health Bill 2022 has been laid before Parliament for consideration.  This will be the first substantial update of the Mental Health Act for fifteen years and it does have an impact on those parts of the Act […]

You know that situation, often covered on this blog, whereby someone requires hospital admission under the MHA, but there’s no bed, and the dilemma emerges about how the situation should be managed until such time as a bed is found?  It can give rise to a perceived conflict between Article 2 and Article 5 ECHR […]