These regulations amend the Mental Health (Nurses, Guardianship, Consent to Treatment and Prescribed Forms) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986. They reflect a change to the name by which “mental handicap nursing” is known, to “learning disabilities nursing”, and a consequent change to the description of certain nurses in the register of qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors, under the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1998. They also add three further categories of nurse to the prescribed class for the purposes of Article 7(3) of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, as nurses on the basis of whose written record in prescribed Form 6, a patient who is receiving treatment for a mental disorder as an in-patient in hospital may be detained for up to 6 hours.
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