75% of AMHPs identified legibility of documentation as a key benefit
Statutory Mental Health Act Forms
Electronic Statutory MHA forms to help mental health professionals efficiently complete MHA processes, leaving them more time to focus on supporting people subject to the MHA and their human rights.
Improved accuracy
Electronic forms reduce the risk of errors, invalid detentions and repeat MHA assessments
Improved scrutiny
The quality of medical recommendations improves, and scrutiny is easier and quicker
Increased productivity
AMHPs’ productivity increases as they are no longer travelling between professionals to amend forms
Secure patient information
Securely and centrally saved electronic forms mitigates the risk of lost paperwork
Greater focus on patients and their rights
Efficient administrative processes gives professionals more time to focus on patients and their rights
Environmental benefits
Digitising the process supports ‘Delivering a net zero NHS’ ambitions
S12 Solutions is the only platform that supports the MHA crisis care pathway from the point of referral for MHA assessment, to discharge from hospital.
Case for change
In Spring 2020, S12 Solutions spoke to Site stakeholders and national leads to understand what else could be done to support their Covid-19 response. Electronic statutory MHA forms were the most common request, following a guidance change that allowed professionals to complete and communicate statutory forms electronically, to support remote working arrangements during the pandemic.
Change made permanent
In December 2020, this change became permanent; the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Treatment) (England)
(Amendment) Regulations 2020, allowed statutory forms to be sent and received electronically when managing the admission, detention, assessment or treatment of a person under Part 2 Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA).
Codesigning the process
S12 Solutions assembled a national working group of approved mental health professionals (AMHPs), section 12 (s.12) doctors, MHA administrators and a MHA Coordination Lead to codesign Electronic Statutory Forms. The group decided development should begin with the most used admission forms, with authority to convey and post admission following afterwards.
What makes it different?
The only digital platform to support the MHA crisis pathway from point of referral for MHA assessment to discharge from hospital
Provides admission and post admission electronic statutory MHA forms
Workflows have been designed to allow doctors with different employment arrangements (Trust, independent), and non s.12 approved doctors without an S12 Solutions account, to complete, sign, edit, securely store and send Statutory Forms
Electronic signatures comply with EU law
Users can create and add information to forms while offline, ready to send when they are online again
No information is saved to devices
Forms are interoperable with electronic patient record systems
71% of AMHPs identified electronic statutory forms as a main platform benefit
73% of doctors identified electronic statutory forms as a main platform benefit
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