Mental health officer resources

These links will give practical resources to assist Mental Health Practitioners working in East Ayrshire.

Guidance documents

• AWI Guardianship Operational Guidance
• AWI Guidance Process Flow-chart
• Mental Health Officer Handbook

2015 Act

• Key Changes
• Transitional provisions
• Named person guidance and process flowchart
• Advocacy
• Advance Statements
• Nurses Guidance

Pro-forma

The links below will take you to proforma for use under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003:

• Emergency and Short-Term Detention
• Compulsory Treatment Orders
• Suspension of Detention
• Revocation
• Treatment
• Transfer
• Nurse's Power to Detain & Removal to Place of Safety
• Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995
• Assessment Orders and Treatment Orders
• Mental Health Officers report for the court
• Compulsion Orders
• Social Circumstances Report
• Hospital Direction
• Transfer for Treatment Direction 
• Transfer for Treatment Direction in Ayrshire
• Detention in Conditions of Excessive Security
• MHO Warrant Forms (Schedule 1)
• Warrant for Community Compulsory Treatment Order
• Advance statements
• Review/Supervising report
• Local Authority Contacts

Named person forms:

• Declaration No Named Person
• Revocation of Named Person
• Nomination of Named Person

Links to external sites

• Mental Welfare Commission
• Forensic Network 
• Mental Health Tribunal Scotland
• Scottish Courts Service  

Meetings calendars

• Legal Solution Forum

Others

• List of Other Contact Numbers including Woodland View
• Section 22 Approved Doctors
• Catteries and Kennels
• Locksmiths