The Mental Health (Care Co-ordination and Care and Treatment Planning) (Wales) Regulations 2011

Review and revision of care and treatment plans

7.—(1) A care and treatment plan may be reviewed or revised by the care coordinator at any time provided that the care coordinator agrees to that review or revision.

(2) Subject to regulation 11, a care coordinator must review and, if necessary revise, a care and treatment plan when—

(a) a period of no more than 12 calendar months has elapsed since the initial preparation or the last review of that plan;

(b) a relevant patient requests a review of his or her plan before the 12 calendar month period has elapsed;

(c) a relevant patient’s carer or adult placement carer requests a review of that patient’s plan before the 12 calendar month period has elapsed; or

(d) a mental health service provider for the purposes of Part 2 (coordination of and care planning for secondary mental health service users) of the Measure(1) requests a review of a relevant patient’s plan.

(3) But a care coordinator need not review a care and treatment plan at the request of a relevant patient, that patient’s carer or that patient’s adult placement carer if, in his or her opinion—

(a) the request for a review is frivolous or vexatious; or

(b) since the last review there has been no change in circumstances which merit the holding of another review before the 12 month period in paragraph (2)(a) has passed.

(4) With the exception of the requirement to have a review and, if necessary, a revision of a care and treatment plan as provided in paragraph (2)(a), a care coordinator need not review a care and treatment plan under any provision of this regulation if minor amendments are required to the plan which, in the care coordinator’s opinion, it is appropriate to make without a review being carried out.

(1)

See section 13 (meaning of “mental health service provider”) of the Measure for the definition of mental health service provider for the purposes of Part 2.