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on the Review of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984Annex
4 ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS FROM WHOM ORAL EVIDENCE
WAS TAKEN The following organisations gave oral evidence to
the Committee at the Oral Evidence sessions held in February 2000: Advocacy
2000:
Ms Marcia Ramsay, Project Director Association of Chief
Police Officers (Scotland):
Mr Ian Gordon, Assistant Chief Constable,
Tayside Police
Superintendent Robert Main, Tayside Police Association
of Directors of Social Work:
Mr Duncan Macaulay, Head of Operations,
City of Edinburgh Council
Ms Christina Naismith, Principal Planning and Commissioning
Officer (Mental Health), City of Edinburgh Council British Association
of Occupational Therapists (BAOT):
Mrs Jenny Carr, Chair,
Dr Maggie
Nicol, Senior Lecturer, Queen Margaret University College British Association
of Social Workers:
Mr Peter Clarke, Mental Health Officer
Ms Ruth
Stark, Professional Officer British Medical Association:
Dr
John Garner, GP and Chairman of the Scottish Council
Dr Peter Bennie, Consultant
Psychiatrist and Member of the Scottish Council British Psychological
Society (BPS):
Mr Michael Carlin, Forensic Psychologist and Solicitor
Ms Alison McMullan, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Hartwood Hospital
Dr Sally Cheseldine, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Kirklands Hospital, Bothwell
Community Psychiatric Nurses Association:
Ms Lena Collins,
Scottish Chair
Mr Ian Dow, UK Chair Crown Office:
Ms Shona
Barrie, Policy Group
Mrs Janet Cameron, Policy Group The Law Society
of Scotland:
Mr Adrian Ward, Solicitor, Convener, Mental Health and Disability
Committee
Ms Anne Keenan, Deputy Director Manic Depression Fellowship
(Scotland):
Ms Mary-Lou McDermott, Convener Mental Welfare
Commission:
Mrs Norma Bennie, Vice-Chair
Mrs Faith Cotter, Part-Time
Commissioner
Mr George Kappler, Social Work Officer National Schizophrenia
Fellowship (Scotland):
Dr Janette Gardner, President
Mrs Mary Fawdry,
Board of Management Royal College of Nursing:
Mr Alex McMahon,
Head of Policy
Mrs Christine Brown, Team Leader, Ayrshire and Arran Primary
Care Trust Royal College of Psychiatrists (Scottish Division):
Dr Harry Miller, General Psychiatry, Aberdeen
Dr Pauline Robertson, Learning
Disability, Edinburgh
Dr Michael Morton, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Glasgow
Dr Colin Gray, Forensic Psychiatry, Carstairs
Dr David J. Hall,
General Psychiatry, Dumfries
Dr Donald Lyons, Old Age Psychiatry, Glasgow
Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH):
Mr Richard Norris,
Head of Policy and Information
Ms May Dunsmuir, Legal and Parliamentary Officer
Scottish Health Board General Managers Group:
Mr John Jackson,
Assistant Director of Commissioning - Priority Services, Greater Glasgow Health
Board Scottish Health Advisory Service:
Dr Sandra Grant, Director
Dr Margaret Whoriskey, Adviser for Disability
Ms Lesley Wilkes, Adviser
for Mental Health Scottish Prison Service:
Dr Alan Mitchell,
Medical Adviser
Mr Tony Leslie, Nursing Adviser Scottish Users
Network:
Mr George H. Ronald, Director
Mrs Sharon Ronald, Secretary
Sheriffs Association:
Sheriff Daniel Convery State
Hospital Board and Clinical staff:
Mr Dick Manson, General Manager
Dr William Dickson, Medical Director
Dr Tom White, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
Mr Doug Irwin, Director of Security (Acting)
Dr Andrew Zealley, Non-Executive
Board member
Dr Barbara Ballinger, Non-Executive Board member The
following gave oral evidence on ethnic minority issues to the Committee in June
2000: Ms Shaben Begum, Advocacy Co-ordinator, State Hospital
Ms Lesley Boyd, Manager, Health Inequality, Lothian Primary Care Trust
Dr
Shainool Jiwa, Mental Welfare Commissioner
Mr Colin Lee, Project Leader,
Men in Mind, Edinburgh Association for Mental Health
Ms Naina Minhas, Project
Co-ordinator, Nari Kallyan Shango (Women's Welfare Group)
Ms Sadiea Nawaz,
Health Information Worker, Nari Kallyan Shango (Women's Welfare Group)
Ms
Rashpal Nottay, Development/Advocacy worker, Minority Ethnic Communities Mental
Health Project, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Ms Sana Sadollah, Arabic/Refugee
Linkworker Advocate, Mental Health Inclusion Project, Lothian Primary Care NHS
Trust The following gave oral presentations at meetings of the Committee:
|
Speaker | Subject |
| Mr John Aldridge
Head of Health Care Policy
Division
Scottish Executive | Developments
in mental health services and implications for mental health law |
| Mr Tom Leckie
Inspector
Community Care
Team)
Social Work Services Inspectorate
Scottish Executive |
| | Mr Adrian Ward
Convener of Law Society of Scotland
Mental Health and Disability Committee
| Principles of mental health law reform and
international comparisons | |
Dr Sue Warner
Principal Research Officer
Scottish Executive Central
Research Unit | |
| Ms Alison Bean
Research
Officer
Scottish Executive Central Research Unit |
Research into Courts | |
Ms Suzi Macpherson
Consultant
Scottish Executive Central Research Unit
| | |
Ms Julia White
Consultant
Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health
Services | |
| Ms Dorothy Buglass
Consultant
Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health Services |
Analysis of Users and Carers Consultation Leaflet |
| Dr Allyson McCollam
Deputy Director
Scottish
Development Centre for Mental Health Services |
Analysis of Committee Consultation papers | |
Ms Alana Atkinson
Senior Development Consultant
Scottish Development
Centre for Mental Health Services | Analysis
of User and Carer Consultation Events | |
Dr Jacqueline Atkinson
Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Science
Department
of Public Health
University of Glasgow |
Literature Review | |
Professor Warren Brookbanks (by video link)
Associate Professor
School
of Law
University of Auckland
New Zealand |
New Zealand's incapacity legislation | |
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