Member

Hence my Amendment 53, which proposes that, where suitable therapy is available to a particular patient, there should be a duty on the part of the hospital to offer the treatment to that patient, without any compulsion for the patient to accept and receive it. Therapy should not be used coercively. The best safeguard against this happening is the presence of psychologists in the in-patient unit as the professionals best placed to ensure that the environment of the unit is genuinely therapeutic.