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Legal status

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Data descriptor

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Legal status

Digitising Social Care

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Digitising Social Care Glossary, v0.0.3

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Whether a person was admitted or discharged as informal or formal/detained.
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Mental Health Act legal status classification code

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NHS Data Dictionary

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT LEGAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION CODE is required for all PATIENTS who have a Hospital Provider Spell which includes the care of a CONSULTANT in the psychiatric specialties or have been discharged from such a Hospital Provider Spell and are required to receive supervised aftercare under the provisions of the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995. CodeDescription 01Informal 02Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 2 03Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 3 04Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 4 05Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 5(2) 06Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 5(4) 07Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 35 08Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 36 09Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 37 with section 41 restrictions 10Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 37 12Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 38 13Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 44 14Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 46 15Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 47 with section 49 restrictions 16Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 47 17Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 48 with section 49 restrictions 18Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 48 19Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 135 20Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 136 31Formally detained under Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 as amended by the Criminal Procedures (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 32Formally detained under other acts 35Subject to guardianship under Mental Health Act Section 7 36Subject to guardianship under Mental Health Act Section 37 37Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 45A (Limited direction in force) 38Formally detained under Mental Health Act Section 45A (Limitation direction ended) 98Not Applicable 99Not Known
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