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The new Mental Health Act, which has received Royal Assent, will address racial disparities in mental health treatment through clearer guidance for professionals and improved performance.
The government hosted a public consultation from 13 January 2021 to 21 April 2021 on a set of proposals to reform the Mental Health Act. They received over 1,700 responses.
Training and monitoring alone will simply not address the fundamental issues of ethnic inequalities, racism and discrimination as there is more than unconscious bias involved.
The government has committed to introduce a Mental Health Bill to transform care for detained patients after an independent review recommended new legislation that placed people’s rights, choices and dignity at its heart.
Everybody has “mental health”, but far too many of us have mental health problems. For many years this has existed in a twilight zone, both in society in general and the NHS in particular.
In October 2017, the Prime Minister commissioned an independent review of the Mental Health Act, seeking to address concerns from organisations and communities on how the legislation is used.
