Mental Health Review

Typed and handwritten correspondence, lists, reviews, summaries and discussion papers concerning Grace Rawlings involvement with the Mental Health Review Tribunals and Mental Health Act Review of 1978. Details include:

Various typed correspondence (replies) from a list of recipients sent a letter regarding Mental Health Review Tribunals from Miss Grace Rawlings, 3rd November 1978,

Typed correspondence sent to Grace Rawlings from J. W. Patten Hon Secretary DCP and DAB? Broadmoor Hospital concerning procedures of Mental Health Review Tribunal, September-November 1978

2 copy typed letters from Grace Rawlings to Mr. Michael Lee-Evans, State Hospital Lanark, Scotland concerning evidence on procedures of the Mental Health Review Tribunal and convenient dates for attending a meeting in London, 29 September 1978 and 4 October 1978

Typed letter from M. R. Wilde, Rampton Hospital, to Grace Rawlings concerning Mental Health Review Tribunals, 14 November 1978

Typed letters from Miss J. P. Clancy, Hampshire Area Health Authority, to Miss Grace Rawlings concerning comments on the Mental Health Review document and attending the next meeting of the Working Party 3rd October 1978 and 25 October 1978

8-page printed document by the BPS PAB entitled "Comments on the Procedures of Mental Health Review Tribunals" 30 November 1978

Typed correspondence from J. W. Patten Hon Secretary DCP and Mavis Ash, Services Manager BPS, concerning secretarial help for Mental Health Review Working Party, September-October 1978

4-page typed copies of simplified procedure for Mental Health review tribunals issued by D.H.S.S. London 1 August 1978 [No. 78/256]

2-page typed draft comments on a discussion paper by the Committee on Mental Health Review Tribunal Procedures 1978

8-page photocopied typed paper entitled "A New Deal for the Mentally Disordered" comments by Mr David Ennals, Secretary of State for Social Services on the new white paper for review of the Mental Health Act 1959, 12 September 1978, DHSS

Handwritten letter from (?) Tavistock Clinic to Grace Rawlings concerning minutes on the Working Party, 9 May 1974

3-page photocopy of a paper prepared by MIND commenting on the White Paper on the Review of the Mental Health Act 1959

8-page photocopied extract from government white paper "Review of the Mental Health Act 1959", September 1978

11-page photocopy of Summary of White Paper: Review of the Mental Health Act 1959, September 1978

55-page booklet entitled "The procedures of the Mental Health Review Tribunals" a Discussion paper by the Committee on Mental Health Review Tribunal Procedures 1978

1974-1978

1 file Some letters are fairly fragile

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.