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Monitoring the Mental Health Act is our annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA).
It looks at how providers are caring for patients, and whether patients' rights are being protected.
The MHA is the legal framework that provides authority for hospitals to detain and treat people who have a mental illness and need protection for their own health or safety, or the safety of other people. The MHA also provides more limited community-based powers, community treatment orders and guardianship.
Read the 2023/24 report
Previous Monitoring the Mental Health Act reports
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2022/23
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2021/22
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2020/21
Older reports
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2019/20
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2018/19
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2017/18
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2016/17
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2015/16
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2014/15
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2013/14
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2012/13
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2011/12
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2010/11
- Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2009/10