Chapter 36 ‘Digitising The Mental Health Act’
Socio-technical systems such as video conferencing, digital care work platforms, and electronic health records are taking an increasing role in mental health-related law, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting on these experiments can help navigate an increasingly digital future for me...
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| description | Socio-technical systems such as video conferencing, digital care work platforms, and electronic health records are taking an increasing role in mental health-related law, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting on these experiments can help navigate an increasingly digital future for mental health services and the laws that govern them. This chapter looks to England and Wales, where an explicit policy aim to ‘digitise the Mental Health Act’ has seen three key developments: (1) remote medical assessments of persons facing involuntary intervention, (2) the remote operation of tribunals that authorise involuntary interventions, and (3) and the rise of digital platforms for Mental Health Act assessment setup. The chapter argues that although courts appear responsive to the issues posed by the first two developments, there appear to be less obvious oversight of digital platforms used to setup mental health crisis work. The chapter considers legal issues raised by ‘digitising mental health legislation’ and draws in a political economy perspective to reflect on the role of the private sector in emerging configurations of digitised health and social services. It recommends attention to safeguards in both the procurement and commissioning of private sector practices concerning mental health crisis work and in the proliferation of digital platforms in health and social care services. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1219912025-03-12T15:59:34Z Chapter 36 ‘Digitising The Mental Health Act’ Gooding, Piers Children and mental health law; Decision-making capacity; Justice and mental health law; Mental health law; UN Convention on Rights of the person with disabilities; World Health Organization’s QualityRights Initiative; coercion; forensic psychiatry and criminal law; gender and mental health law; human rights; involuntary psychiatric treatment; mental health and criminal law; older adults and mental health law Socio-technical systems such as video conferencing, digital care work platforms, and electronic health records are taking an increasing role in mental health-related law, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting on these experiments can help navigate an increasingly digital future for mental health services and the laws that govern them. This chapter looks to England and Wales, where an explicit policy aim to ‘digitise the Mental Health Act’ has seen three key developments: (1) remote medical assessments of persons facing involuntary intervention, (2) the remote operation of tribunals that authorise involuntary interventions, and (3) and the rise of digital platforms for Mental Health Act assessment setup. The chapter argues that although courts appear responsive to the issues posed by the first two developments, there appear to be less obvious oversight of digital platforms used to setup mental health crisis work. The chapter considers legal issues raised by ‘digitising mental health legislation’ and draws in a political economy perspective to reflect on the role of the private sector in emerging configurations of digitised health and social services. It recommends attention to safeguards in both the procurement and commissioning of private sector practices concerning mental health crisis work and in the proliferation of digital platforms in health and social care services. 2023-11-17T09:12:59Z 2023-11-17T09:12:59Z 2023-10-04T09:56:35Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76535 9781032128375 9781032128405 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121991 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76535/1/9781003226413_10.4324_9781003226413-44.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76535/1/9781003226413_10.4324_9781003226413-44.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76535/1/9781003226413_10.4324_9781003226413-44.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003226413-44 10.4324/9781003226413-44 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law Australian Research Council University of Melbourne 2b499bba-4c72-4c14-ba3d-ad473c6e6069 d1d19f80-cee6-485a-83c2-82cb792369de 9781032128375 9781032128405 Routledge 21 ARC No. DE200100483 open access |
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