They’re also supposed to be asked to nominate someone to serve as their near relative using Form 15. When patients aren’t willing or able to sign the form, someone else must sign it on their behalf.Īt admission, patients are supposed to receive information about their rights through Form 13. The patient should be asked to read and sign the consent to treatment. The doctor is supposed to write the treatment plan on Form 5, the consent to treatment.
One Form 4 allows the hospital to hold someone for 48 hours, and a second Form 4 allows the hospital to hold that person for up to 1 month.
( For more information on the four criteria, see our rights materials.) The Form 4 is the legal document that allows patients to be kept in hospital against their will for treatment. When a person is first admitted under the Mental Health Act, a doctor must sign a Form 4 medical certificate and should also list on that form the ways the patient meets the four criteria for involuntary hospitalization.