Reformed Mental Health Act to offer choice and tackle discrimination
After the Independent Review in 2018 the long-awaited white paper on the…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
Scotland’s Mental Health Act will be subject to an independent review
An independent review of the Mental Health Act in Scotland has been…
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…
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…
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…
