Prime minister says recent legislation is needed to end discrimination resulting from current Mental Health ActTheresa May will pledge to scrap the “flawed Mental Health Act,warning that it has allowed the unnecessary detention of thousands of people and failed to deal with discrimination against ethnic minority patients.
In an attempt to meet her pledge to prioritise mental illness during her premiership, she will commit to ripping up the 30-year-obsolete legislation and replace it with recent laws designed to halt a steep rise in the number of people being detained. Increased thresholds for detention would be drawn up in a recent mental health treatment bill to be unveiled soon after a Conservative victory. Mental health charities, or clinicians and patients would be consulted on the recent legislation.
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Source: theguardian.com