NHS psychiatrists are facing pressure to avoid detaining psychotic black patients under the Mental Health Act, with nine current and…
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A mother’s desperate pleas to save her daughter from a fatal ketamine addiction went unheard, an inquest has heard, as…
Systemic failings in mental health care allowed a man with paranoid schizophrenia to kill three people, an inquiry has heard,…
New Mental Health Act reforms aim to strengthen patient rights, with legislation that came into force in December 2025 tightening…
Hannah Murray was not being sectioned. She was, in her own mind, the saviour of the planet. The formal words…
Patients experiencing acute mental health crises are being subjected to conditions described as inhumane because of fundamental gaps in the…
Lucy May Dawson was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and subjected to electroconvulsive therapy for what doctors insisted was…