Section 57

Question 1

What does section 57 do?

Answer 1

Regards treatment requiring Consent and a Second Opinion

Question 2

What does it involve?

Answer 2

Psychosurgery and Surgical Implantation of Hormones, applying to formal and informal patients.

Question 3

When can treatment be given under section 57?

Answer 3

(a) patient with capacity consents (certified by AC or SOAD)

(b) SOAD certifies that it is appropriate for the treatment to be given

Question 4

How is it different to the others?

Answer 4

it is not an option, unless the P consents with capacity and they have a SOAD

Question 5

What has CQC suggested as a new treatment?

Answer 5

Magnetic Seizure Therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Question 6

What did Kirov say?

Answer 6

It should be a last resort for depression.

Question 7

Safeguards in relation to Magnetic Seizure Therapy?

Answer 7

Parliament must bring in safeguards along the lines of ECT

Question 8

What was the CQC’s View?

Answer 8

Repeated suggestion to Government that the Mental Health regulations should extend the safeguards of section 57 to the use of DBS as a treatment for MD.