Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust have worked in collaboration with 21 NHS Trusts to produce a series of Mental Health Act information videos and leaflets in 28 languages.

• Albanian
• Arabic
• Bengali
• British Sign Language
• English
• French
• Gujarati
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Italian
• Korean
• Kurdish
• Lithuanian
• Mandarin
• Pashto
• Patois
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovene
• Somali
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Sylheti
• Tamil
• Turkish
• Urdu
• Vietnamese

• Electro-convulsive therapy for patients detained in hospital (Section 58A of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Guardianship (Section 7 of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Supervised community treatment for section 3 patients (Section 17A of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Admission to hospital for assessment (Section 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Admission to hospital for treatment (Section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Detention of patients already in hospital (Section 5(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Nurses' power to detain a person being treated for mental disorder as a hospital in-patient (Section 5(4) of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Admission to hospital by a hospital order without restrictions (Section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Admission to hospital by a hospital order with restrictions (Sections 37 and 41 of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Transfer to hospital of an unsentenced prisoner (with or without restrictions) (Section 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983)
• Admission of mentally disordered persons found in a public place (Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983)