RACIAL ABUSE IN THE NHS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

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That this House strongly condemns any form of racial abuse in the NHS mental health services; welcomes the report into the death of David 'Rocky' Bennett who died in a secure unit for mental health patients in Norwich in October 1998; calls on the Secretary of State for Health to take appropriate action to eliminate any form of institutional racism in the NHS mental health services; and asks him to put on record this Government's commitment to fair and equal treatment of mental health patients.