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Article 2 Definition of “mental health care”

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

For the purposes of the definition of “mental health care” in section 12 of the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act 2003 health services relating to mental health are of a prescribed description if they are—

(a)

psychiatric services; or

(b)

other services provided to a patient for the purposes of the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness,

where the person primarily responsible for arranging those services is a consultant psychiatrist.