Mental Health Alliance

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

[edit] Prominent affiliated charities

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

[edit] 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.