New clause 18 - Review
Mental Capacity Bill
Public Bill Committees, 28 October 2004, 2:30 pm
'(1) A care plan for P must specify the date on or before which P's responsible clinician must carry out a review (the ''review date'').
(2) The first review date must be not more than six months after the day on which the plan is approved under section K.
(3) Each subsequent review date must be not more than six months after the previous one.
(4) P's representative may request a review at any time, but may not make more than one request in any 6 months.
(5) On each review the responsible clinician must consider—
(a) whether the conditions specified in section E are met,
(b) the date to be substituted in the care plan at the next review date, and
(c) whether the care plan should be otherwise amended.
(6) If the responsible clinician determines that any of the conditions under E are not met in P's case, P ceases to be a qualifying patient.
(7) The responsible clinician must inform P's representative in writing of the determinations made on any review and the reasons for them.'.