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The Mental Health Act is an Ontario law that regulates the administration of mental health care in the province. The main purpose of the legislation is to regulate the involuntary admission of people into a psychiatric hospital. Since the changes brought about in 2000 under Bill 68 (often referred to as Brian's Law, named after Brian Smith who ...
The Substitute Decisions Act (the Act) is an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Ontario, Canada. It establishes the legal criteria determining when a person has the ability to make decisions that are fundamental to his/her well-being. The ability to make these types of decisions is termed capacity and the decisions are termed consent.
The Health Care Consent Act ( HCCA) is an Ontario law concerned with the capacity to consent to treatment and admission to care facilities. (i.e., informed consent ). [ 1][ 2] As of 2 August 2023 on a date to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, the act will also apply to confining in a care facility. [ 3]
Starson v Swayze, 2003 SCC 32, [2003] 1 S.C.R. 722 was an important case at the Supreme Court of Canada that considered the legal requirements for determining if a person is capable of making decisions regarding their medical treatment.
A mental health tribunal is a specialist tribunal ( hearing) empowered by law to adjudicate disputes about mental health treatment and detention, primarily by conducting independent reviews of patients diagnosed with mental disorders who are detained in psychiatric hospitals, or under outpatient commitment, and who may be subject to involuntary ...
Healthcare in Canada is delivered through the provincial and territorial systems of publicly funded health care, informally called Medicare. [ 1][ 2] It is guided by the provisions of the Canada Health Act of 1984, [ 3] and is universal. [ 4]: 81 The 2002 Royal Commission, known as the Romanow Report, revealed that Canadians consider universal ...
Hospitals in Canada. Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) is a public hospital located in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, providing a range of specialized assessment and treatment services to those living with complex and serious mental illness. Interprofessional teams provide care through safe and evidence-based ...
Child Ministry. Ontario Health. Website. www.health.gov.on.ca. The Ministry of Health is the Government of Ontario ministry responsible for administering the health care system in the Canadian province of Ontario. [1] The ministry is responsible to the Ontario Legislature through the minister of health, presently Sylvia Jones since June 24, 2022.