# Mental Health Act 2025, Section 40: Independent mental health advocates

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: prospective

Schedule 3 contains amendments relating to independent mental health advocates, including amendments which—
(a) provide for informal patients to qualify for help from independent mental health advocates;
(b) impose duties on hospital managers and others to notify providers of advocacy services about qualifying patients;
(c) impose duties on providers of advocacy services to arrange for certain patients to be interviewed to find out whether they want to use those services.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/33/section/40 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/section-40
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