Mental Welfare Commission Case Management System

The Mental Welfare Commission (MWC) is an independent statutory body funded by Scottish Government and charged with protecting and promoting the human rights of people with mental illness, learning disabilities, dementia, and related conditions in Scotland. Its key role is to protect the welfare of people who are vulnerable through mental disorder and one of the ways we do this is to monitor the use of the Mental Health legislation. MWC receive all notifications of detentions and other associated orders for the MHA and all welfare guardianship applications – over 40,000 notifications or forms per year.

The Commission’s powers and statutory duties are outlined in the following legislation:

the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003

the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000

the Criminal Procedures (Scotland) Act 1995

We carry out our statutory duties by focussing on five key areas of work:

Influencing and empowering

Visiting individuals

Monitoring the law

Investigation and casework

Information and advice

When someone is detained, they can be deprived of their liberty and treated without their consent. This care and treatment must be regulated carefully through legislation. As part of its monitoring of how the law is being used throughout Scotland the Commission receives over 40,000 notifications, forms, and associated paperwork each year for any of the following

Detentions and other associated orders for the MHA and CPSA,

All welfare guardianship and intervention order applications,

Treatment and compulsion orders under these acts

Due to the diversity of the work carried out by the Commission, there is a wide range of stakeholders who contribute to the completion or processing of the forms e.g.

Health boards (medical records)

Health and social care partnerships, specifically social work departments

Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (MHTS)

Courts

Solicitors

Office of the Public Guardian

the Service User ( we do not use the term “patient” as not everyone who uses the services of the Commission is a patient)

The new system should enable:

1.Support of all business processes which support the monitoring of the application of:

The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (MHA 2003)

The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (AWIA 2000)

The Criminal Procedures (Scotland) Act 1995

2.Processing forms and episodes for all mental health and incapacity legislation

Opportunities for automation will be considered on a form-by-form basis, as long as it does not adversely impact project budget or timescales

3.Future business process re-engineering e.g.

Automation, where possible, of the handling and recording of contact made to and by the Commission e.g. email, Royal Mail, phone calls, visits, Advice Line.

Automation, where possible, of the process for managing Designated Medical Practitioners (DMPs). Includes:

Directory maintenance

Availability monitoring

Managing appointments

Payment of fees

Where possible:

Process automation for managing visits; and,

Process automation for managing investigation

4.Management of processes, tasks & resource allocation

For an individual

For a group of individuals

For the organisation

5.Management Information reporting

Regular & ad-hoc reports

On screen and physical reports for MWC staff, managers and Executive Leadership Team.

Reports for external publication on the MWC website

6.Document storage & management of documentation relating to cases, visits, investigations stored On IMP database and In folders on the shared FS1 drive

7.A comprehensive case management solution

8. Migration of data from core IT system to the [New System], includes legacy data from v5, as well as v6 & v7 form data and any forms implemented subsequent to this requirements report Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015