The Health Secretary took himself on the weekend politics programmes and decided to tell us “mental health is over-diagnosed” as the hints about this week’s cuts to benefits was trailed. It caused quite the kerfuffle – radio phone-ins, official responses from bodies like the Royal College of Psychiatrists as well as the predictable debates on […]

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This post is not really about mental health, but mental capacity and more importantly still, the legal assessment of capacity to take decisions.  Like me, you may have followed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which is now before the House of Commons and is separately passing through the Scottish Parliament.  I admit […]

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The Mental Health Bill (about which I’m increasingly worried) has now reached Committee stage in the House of Commons and will be considered in detail before returning for the third reading, which will be the final vote before it will be presented, if passed, to His Majesty for Royal Assent. You will remember, during the bill’s passage through the House […]

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