Mental Health Services

We provide statutory, hospital and community Mental Health Advocacy services in all of Warwickshire, City of Coventry and Greater Solihull.

IMHA
Independent Mental Health Advocacy.

Provision of this service is a statutory right to qualifying detained patients under the mental heath act 2007. For more information please see the following websites. 

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/12/contents
www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk

Under Section 30 of the Mental Health Act (2007), independent mental health advocates must be available to offer support to qualifying patients. The act describes patients who are eligible for IMHA services as ‘qualifying patients’. A qualifying patient is a patient who is one of the following:

a detainee under the Mental Health Act (1983) (even if they are currently on leave of absence from hospital)

a conditionally discharged restricted patient subject to guardianship, a supervised community treatment patient.

In addition, informal (voluntary) patients qualify for an IMHA service if they are either:

being considered for a Section 57 treatment are under 18 years of age and being considered for a Section 58A treatment. However, a patient does not qualify for an IMHA service if they have been detained under one of the following sections:

on the basis of an emergency application (Section 4) until the second medical recommendation is received under the holding powers in Section 5 in a place of safety under Sections 135 or 136.

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