Tories and Lib-Dems Attack Mental Health Shake-Up

Evening Standard - London › April 17, 2007

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THE Conservatives and Liberal Democrats today joined forces to oppose the Government's "wholly unacceptable" mental health reforms.

The Mental Health Bill will allow doctors to detain mentally ill people against their will even if they have not committed a crime. Ministers say the measure is necessary to keep the public safe from psychiatric patients who refuse treatment.

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Tories and Lib-Dems Attack Mental Health Shake-Up

But Norman Lamb, the Lib-Dem health spokes...

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