Rights and laws

This factsheet explains how and when you can access health records and further information.

A comprehensive and accessible guide for mental health professionals advising service users on advance directives.

A factsheet designed to help people using mental health services say what they want, obtain their rights and gain access to the services they need.

Breaking the Silence looks at how physically disabled people, African Americans, women and the LGBT community have had their rights recognised through civil rights and suggests how people with mental illness could do the same.

This factsheet looks at the care available to someone with a mental health problem, including aftercare for someone who has been under a ‘treatment’ section of the Mental Health Act.

While mental health services may be closed for a variety of reasons, in some cases it is possible to challenge the closure.  This factsheet looks at why services might close, the proper procedure for closure, and how this might be challenged.

This factsheet decribes what clinical negligence is, how to find out if you have a case, the difference between clinical negligence and complaints and further useful information.

This factsheet explains what confidentiality means in practice and why it exists.

How to deal with debt. This factsheet looks at the reasons people with mental health problems can fall into debt, which debts are more important than others and where people who are struggling with debts can get help.

This factsheet explores all the different options available for dealing with non-priority debts such as credit cards and loans.