Campaigners are warning that a new mental health law covering Wales will not reduce the "unnecessary" detention of disabled ...

Lane sets out the main changes made, and issues raised, by the House of Lords in relation to the Mental Health Bill ...

“This government inherited a broken NHS and it is unacceptable that mental health patients have not been getting the care and treatment they deserve. “We are reforming the Mental Health Act so ...

Read about the resumption of a major inquiry into the deaths of thousands of mental health inpatients in Essex.

The Mental Health Bill is coming to Parliament soon and will reform legislation badly in need of updating more than 40 years ...

A mother whose daughter was found to have been neglected by a hospital before taking her own life has blamed the “failures of the system” for her daughter’s death and has demanded improved ...

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