Health
Ministers urged to end delay on law curbing restraint on mental health patients – The Guardian
Labour, ex-ministers and heads of charities call for legislation passed in 2018 to be implemented
Mental healthLabour, ex-ministers and heads of charities call for legislation passed in 2018 to be implemented
Mon 30 Nov 2020 11.09 GMT
Ministers are being urged to finally implement legislation restricting the use of dangerous restraint practices against patients in mental health units two years after it was passed.
Labour, two former mental health ministers and the bosses of charities have demanded an end to the unusually long wait for the groundbreaking laws to be introduced.
They have written…
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