After-care services for people with mental health problems
Whilst we do not deal with mental health law and cannot, for example, advise those detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 we can, and do, help those moving back into the community after they have been detained in hospital.
If you have been detained in hospital under Section 3 and are to be discharged, you must not be discharged without the hospital, which is usually a Mental Health Trust (a partnership between the Primary Care Trust and the local authority mental health team), first planning your discharge and preparing a discharge plan which sets out the help, support and care services you should receive when you return to the community.
This help is known as ‘after care services’ provided under Section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and you are entitled to receive whatever help, support and care services you need to enable you to resettle in the community fully funded, where necessary, by the NHS.
Just as we can help you obtain community care, health care or continuing healthcare services, we can also ensure you receive all of the after care services you need to enable you to re-build your life in the community following what is often a very distressing period in hospital.
We can help you tackle any failure to properly assess your needs or provide after care services by way of negotiation or argument, formal complaint or when the NHS is acting unfairly, unreasonably and unlawfully, by way of Judicial Review proceedings in the Administrative Court.
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