Mental Health Alliance

Mental Health Alliance

The Mental Health Alliance is an organisation composed of between 60 and 75 charities that aims to secure better mental health legislation.

Prominent affiliated charities

  • Mind
  • Rethink
  • Sane
  • BMA
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists

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.

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