Publications

You can also download, complete online, and print forms from the Scottish Government website at Mental Health Act forms, and Adults with Incapacity Act forms.

This document provides a framework to support the development of person centred care plans and will enable a consistently high quality approach to care planning for nurses working in all mental health settings within NHS Tayside.

This guide refers to the role of named person as set out in the main piece of mental health law in Scotland.

Evaluation of the Sharing Intelligence for Health and Care Group

Response to the Independent Evaluation of the Sharing Intelligence for Health and Care Group

Produced in partnership with: Audit Scotland, Care Inspectorate, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland, and NHS National Services Scotland.

'Triangle of Care - Carers Included: A Guide to Best Practice in Mental Health Care in Scotland' - this is a guide produced by Carers Trust in partnership with a number of organisations including the Commission.

The Charter for Involvement is written by the National Involvement Network (NIN) and was published in January 2015. It is a series of 12 new statements that show how people who use services want to be involved.

This Report addresses a legal problem which determined that the admission to a psychiatric hospital an continued residence there of a person with learning difficulties such that he could not consent to being where he was represented a deprivation of his liberty, could not be characterised as "voluntary" and needed to take place under a lawful process in order to comply with Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.