[Mental Health] Mental Health Information

[dancefloorlandmine]

Here's a link to a handy Mental Health briefing document - a summary of forthcoming Bill, lots of links, and so forth.

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[arkady.livejournal.com]

The suggestions under the forthcoming draft Discrimination Bill - giving mentally ill people the same rights as physically disabled people - sound promising, as does this idea of a "nominated person" with rights to help the patient challenge the use of compulsory powers in the proposed new Mental Health Bill - but there are a lot of not so good points to that proposed bill. There seems to be far too much talk of compulsory treatment orders there for my liking.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's roughly the response of the assorted pressure groups, including the Mental Health Alliance - including a suggestion that there should be more compulsion on the government to fulfil their election promises about sorting out mental health services. I suspect that there's a lot of knee-jerk Blunkettism going on.