ANNEX B1
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN ANNUAL REPORTS TO SCOTTISH MINISTERS
1. The RMO is required to provide the following reports on restricted patients:
- admission report/3 month report;
- treatment plan reports (State Hospital patients only); and
- annual report.
2. Each report (except treatment plan reports) on the patient must provide the RMO's opinion of the patient's mental state and detainability under the 2003 Act. See also Annex B2 on risk assessment.
Annual reports
3. This should detail the patient's progress in hospital since the last annual report and should include the following information:
- nursing and other care;
- medication;
- psychological assessment and treatment;
- account of changes in mental state since the last annual report;
- social work assessment;
- any child protection issues; any issues in relation to sex offending registration;
- patient's relations with staff and other patients;
- patient's participation in activities while in hospital;
- freedoms available to patient e.g. open door, leave within hospital grounds and suspension of detention in the community, etc and how they are used;
- patient's relations with family and friends out with hospital;
- plans for patient's future care including plans for patient's further rehabilitation, where appropriate; and
- RMO's opinion of the patient's mental state and detainability under the 2003 Act.
4. Where any of the information on the patient's background, family background, criminal record, medical history, psychiatric history or any other information previously provided to the Scottish Executive Health Department ( SEHD) has been important in informing the current understanding of the patient, where new information has come to light in the course of the year or where old information has been proved inaccurate, the SEHD should be informed as part of the annual report. The SEHD should also be informed if there has been a change of understanding by the multidisciplinary team of information previously known about the patient.