Is it time to scrap the UK’s mental health act?
Medicine and Science from The BMJ
November 17, 201726m 6s
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Show Notes
Unjust discrimination against people with mental ill health should be replaced with universal rules based on decision making ability, argues George Szmukler, emeritus professor of psychiatry and society at King’s College, London.
However Scott Weich, professor of mental health at the University of Sheffield, worries about legal distractions that won’t improve outcomes while services are so thinly stretched.
Read the full debate:
http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5248