Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 10335

Mental Health Act 1983

Tabled: 21 October 2024

Answered: 6 November 2024

Question

Tom Hayes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 to (a) abolish community treatment orders, (b) ensure people to have a right to appeal decisions, (c) ensure patients in a mental

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

The Mental Health Bill announced in the King’s Speech will deliver the Government’s commitment to modernise the Mental Health Act 1983. The reforms will strengthen the voice of patients by adding statutory weight to patients’ rights to be involved with pl...

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