Mental Health Alliance
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The Mental Health Alliance is an organisation composed of between 60 and 75 charities that aims to secure better mental health legislation.
[edit] Prominent affiliated charities
- Mind
- Rethink
- Sane
- BMA
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
[edit] Topics of concern
- The threat of compulsory treatment sanctioned under the Mental Health Acts of 1983 and 2007 are too wide.
- Proper care is not guaranteed during the time in which an individual is a formal (unwilling) patient.
- Civil liberties are at risk, as persons can be unwillingly detained.
- Patients who are detained can be forcibly administered treatment without consent.
- Access to care is sometimes ignored.
- Staffing pressures can lead to bad quality care.
