Sometimes the law allows a person with serious mental health needs to be detained in hospital against their will. This is so that they can be assessed or treated. This can include someone with ...

Remand prisoners requiring urgent in-patient psychiatric treatment can be transferred from prison to hospital under section 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983. During the last decade there has been a ...

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

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, ...

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.

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

More than a dozen people with learning disabilities and autism were "locked away" in hospital across Frimley and the ...

A “shameful” and “gut-wrenching” rise in racial disparities in the use of the Mental Health Act 1983 has prompted calls for changes to the government bill’s to reform the legislation. The AMHP ...

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