Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee Draft Report
Title: The Mental Health (Care Co-ordination and Care and Treatment Planning) (Wales) Regulations 2011
Procedure: Affirmative
These Regulations make provision about care co-ordination and care and treatment planning for patients using secondary mental health services.
Technical Scrutiny
No points are identified for reporting under Standing Order 21.2 in respect of this draft instrument:
Merits Scrutiny
Under Standing Order 21.3(ii) (gives rise to issues of public policy likely to be of interest to the Assembly) the Assembly is invited to pay special attention to the following instrument.
These Regulations are part of a suite of regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under powers conferred on them by provisions of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 (“the Measure”) designed to develop and enhance mental health services in Wales.
Under Part 2 of the Measure patients accepted into secondary mental health services in wales will have a dedicated care co-ordinator. Provision is made by the Regulations relating to the criteria which must be satisfied before a person can be appointed as a care co-ordinator.
The Measure also provides that service providers (Local Health Boards and local authorities) will act in a co-ordinated manner to improve the effectiveness of the mental health services provided to the patient.
The Measure ensures that each individual patient will have a tailored care and treatment plan developed by the care co-ordinator in consultation with the patient and overseen by the co-ordinator with a view to achieving the outcomes which the services provided to the patient are designed to achieve.
These provisions are unique to Wales.
As these Regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure they will be debated by the Assembly in Plenary.
Legal Advisers
Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee
14 November 2011