This annual bulletin summarises information about uses of the Mental Health Act 1983. It includes information from high security psychiatric hospitals as well as from other NHS service providers and independent hospitals.
This year some tables have been amended to reflect changes in the Mental Health Act which came into force on 3 November 2008 as a result of the Mental Health Act 2007. These include the addition of information about supervised community treatment (SCT) and changes to categories of mental disorder.