Sectioned Scotland

You might be able to appeal against the decision to detain you.

Sectioned scotland. The law enables people to be admitted treated and held in hospital against their will as long as certain procedures are followed with the aim of getting them better. The rules about being admitted to hospital without your consent and your rights while you re in hospital are complicated. What does the term sectioned mean.

I ve had a friend who has had to be sectioned twice as she was bipolar but it wasn t diagnosed till she was sectioned and now the help they have given her has turned her life around and is in a much. The adults with incapacity scotland act 2000 is relevant for those individuals who are felt not to have capacity to make their own decisions. See our pages on sectioning for more information.

47 year old canadian andrea has a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and has been sectioned several times since moving to the uk when she was 23. The first time she recalls. In scotland you need to speak to the crisis team who will assess her and make the decision looking at all her history and police reports etc.

Being sectioned means being detained under a section paragraph of the mental health act 1983 because doctors are worried you re going to hurt yourself or other people. This includes changes which may affect you if you are sectioned under the mental health act 1983. The law in scotland and northern ireland differs slightly there are some links below.

The basic principles are similar. I had been given. Sectioned is a commonly used term that refers to someone who is being detained in a psychiatric hospital under a section paragraph of the mental health act.

Being sectioned means that you are kept in hospital under the mental health act. The length of time that you can be kept in hospital depends on which section you are detained under. This is sometimes called being sectioned or detained.