20 December 2021
On January 1st 2020, the Act on compulsory mental healthcare (Wvggz) and the Act on Compulsory Healthcare for Psychogeriatric and Mentally Handicapped Clients (Wzd) entered into force. In December 2021, the first part of the evaluation of these Acts was published, to which Prof. Johan Legemaate has contributed as project leader of the evaluation.
The first chapter focuses on implementation and execution of both Acts. The evaluation illustrates that both Acts stimulate the cooperation between different partners in the chain. Moreover, they promote more precise documentation of the objectives and motivation for compulsory healthcare in individual cases. Various less positive effects were mentioned as well, such as the difficulty to switch between the different regimes of the two Acts, the increased regulatory pressure, and the observed knowlegde gaps due to complicated legislation.