Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2016/17: Amendments

Published: 31 December 2018 Page last updated: 12 May 2022
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Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2016/17

The 2016/17 edition of Monitoring the Mental Health Act has been amended after our analysts found that we had displayed some data gathered by Mental Health Act reviewers on their visits in an inaccurate way.


An explanation for the amendments:

  • Up until 2015/16, we used ‘Yes/No’ categories to document specific types of data gathered by Mental Health Act Reviewers on their visits. In 2015/16, we added an option for Reviewers to use a category of ‘Requires improvement’. This gave Reviewers the option of documenting that the provider had shown some evidence of meeting requirements, but that it still required improvement.
  • When working on the 2016/17 report, our analysts found that Reviewers had been inconsistent in how they had documented this information. Some had recorded results with just ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, while others had recorded ‘Yes’, ‘No’, or ‘Requires improvement’.
  • In preparing the report, we sought to present the information in the ‘Yes/No’ style to show a trend from past results. However, in doing so we combined the responses of ‘Requires improvement’ with the ‘No’ responses, which was inaccurate. As a result, we have amended the report.

Download the amended report:

Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2016/17

Download the full list of amendments:

Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2016/17: List of amendments