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Reformed Mental Health Act to offer choice and tackle discrimination

After the Independent Review in 2018 the long-awaited white paper on the…

Ed Brown

Scotland’s MHA review: “I don’t think trauma-informed care will stop all the suffering we go through”

Graham Morgan has been living under a compulsory community treatment order for…

Graham Morgan

That is the worst part, having to come to terms with your freedom being taken away

Mohammed Khan, who has lived with mental illness for thirteen years, reflects…

Mohammed Khan

‘I’ve had psychosis before and recovered in months – I shouldn’t be locked up for years’

Indefinite isolation is anything but a ‘new normal’ for the thousands of…

Barney Cullum

Average CTO duration in South London is four times longer than govenment projections

In the first large, observational study with a control group in England…

LeeMC2022

How advance treatment preferences could be honoured under the new Mental Health Act

With the UK Government set to reform the Mental Health Act this…

Adrian Pecotic

Scotland’s Mental Health Act will be subject to an independent review

An independent review of the Mental Health Act in Scotland has been…

LeeMC2022

1 in 5 patients detained under the Mental Health Act have no input in their care plans

Throughout 2017/18, CQC (Care Quality Commission) carried out visits to mental health wards to…

LeeMC2022

Disabling convention: does the UN CRPD fail to reflect mental health realities?

Akiko Hart considers questions thrown up by the government's independent Mental Health Act…

Akiko Hart

What does the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act mean for autistic people?

Tim Nicholls, Head of Policy at the National Autistic Society, discusses what…

Tim Nicholls