Exclusive: ICO rule NHS’s Mental Health Act whitewash breaches Freedom of Information law
Data on ECT and advocacy use is being withheld by NHS Digital…
The government’s terror strategy ‘compromises the Mental Health Act and must be challenged’
Post 9/11 Islamophobia and the pathologisation of black people should be tackled…
Simon Wessely: ‘ECT is in my own advance directive’
Professor Simon Wessely, chair of this year's Mental Health Act review, discusses issues including…
MHA reform is our ‘one chance’ to tailor ethnic minority care and transform safeguards
The Mental Health Act is currently under independent review, with recommendations for…
Exclusive – NHS Digital: ‘Monitoring rising shock therapy is no longer a priority’
As many as one in twelve patients detained under the Mental Health…
Advance decisions can be ignored under the existing Mental Health Act – that needs to change
In theory you can record an 'advance decision', when well, to refuse…
Community treatment orders and nearest relative rules face axe under new Mental Health Act
The Mental Health Act review team commissioned by the government have published…
Mental Health Act review: ‘BAME fears of disappearing into a hospital “black hole” are genuine concerns’
The vice-chair of the Mental Health Act review discusses the fear of…
Psychiatrists acknowledge ‘unconscious racial bias’
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says it wants to "support psychiatrists in reflecting on the…
Race: New methods backed to tackle inequity
Backing for three new measures to reduce the disproportionate number of BAME patients…