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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 January 2025
Debate
Mental Health Bill [HL]Contribution
A final point I shall make is that it is strange that there is no requirement on the NHS to deal with problems that have been caused by drugs that have been, with the best intentions and often successfully, administered to patients, but have led to harm thereafter. With cytotoxic drugs in cancers, I believe the NHS does a lot to support people with their impact. Why is it that in this particular case, in mental health, when we know that these drugs cause a significant problem for a significant number of people, we do not recognise that there is a responsibility for the NHS to help people to come off them in the appropriate way?
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