AMHP Abul Hussain explores the ethical dilemmas he confronts, how he learns from practice and how he has built the resilience to keep going ...

Black people in the North East and north Cumbria are almost three times as likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act as white people, new figures show.

The report suggests the below changes to the existing legislation: People’s wishes and preferences should carry far more legal weight Action is needed for people from ethnic minority communities, ...

A Shropshire and North Wales law firm has appointed a new head of department for its mental health team. GHP Legal, which has ...

A commissioner should be appointed to oversee reforms to mental health and monitor their implementation and impact, parliamentarians said. MPs and peers called for the Government to strengthen its ...

Nine prominent medical and social care organisations have jointly condemned proposed amendments to mental health legislation that would extend police powers of detention to medical practitioners in ...

A Bill that will give mental health patients a greater say over their case and treatment is one step closer to becoming law. The landmark Mental Health Bill amends a 1983 Act that set out the legal ...