The Millan Committee website can be visited at www.scotland.gov.uk.

CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION

• OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES
  • Difficulty of getting help from GPs
  • Difficulty of getting admission to hospital
  • Experience of 'sectioning'

• DEFINITION OF MENTAL DISORDER
  • Defined on basis of need or diagnosis
  • Personality disorder

• COMPULSORY MEASURES
  • Police involvement
  • Place of safety
  • Time limits for detention
  • Review/legal challenge
  • Review of 72-hour Section
  • Compulsory treatment
  • Where should compulsory treatment be carried out

• VOLUNTARY PATIENTS
  • Protection of voluntary patients

• ADVOCACY

• SERVICES
  • Legal rights to services

• RELATIVES AND CARERS
  • Carers' rights to assessment of service user's mental health
  • Rights of carers to have information
  • Carers' legal right to ask for 2nd opinion on treatment
  • Carers' rights to support for themselves
  • Redefining 'nearest relative'

• INCAPABLE ADULTS (Health Issues)
  • Advance Directives

• VULNERABLE ADULTS
  • Exploitation/ Abuse