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Draft Mental Health Bill

Inquiry by the Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee), 1 August 2022 to 30 May 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 11 October 2022: Restraint Reduction Network; Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • 11 October 2022: Mind (The National Association for Mental Health); Centre for Mental Health; National Survivor User Network; Rethink Mental Illness
  • 18 October 2022: National Autism Society; Mencap; NDTi; Inclusion London
  • 19 October 2022: Professor Stephani Hatch, Kings College London; Mental Health Foundation; Race on the Agenda; Catalyst for Change; Gaddum
  • 25 October 2022: VoiceAbility; Dr Nahed Arafet, School of Languages and Culture, University of Sheffield; Centre for Mental Health Research - City, University of London; Dr Lucy Stephenson
  • 26 October 2022: Independent Review of the Mental Health Act; Independent Review of the Mental Health Act; Independent Review of the Mental Health Act; Independent Review of the Mental Health Act
  • 2 November 2022: Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody; Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin, York Law School, University of York; Howard League for Penal Reform; Dr Shubulade Smith, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
  • 2 November 2022: Dr Arun Chopra, Member of Independent Review topic group; Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust; Dr Kevin Stone, Associate Professor in Social Work and practicing Approved Mental Health Professional
  • 8 November 2022: Professor Gavin Davidson, Queen's University, Belfast; Professor George Szmukler, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London; Professor Jill Stavert, Edinburgh Napier University; Dr Lucy Series, School of Policy Studies, Bristol University
  • 9 November 2022: Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition; Article 39; Dr Susan Walker, Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • 9 November 2022: Dr Margaret Flynn, National Mental Capacity Forum; Dr Quinton Deeley; Faculty of Intellectual Disabilities, Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • 15 November 2022: Law Society; Professor Judy Laing, University of Bristol; Justin Leslie (Mental health lawyer and former parliamentary counsel)
  • 16 November 2022: Just Equality
  • 16 November 2022: AMHP (Approved Mental Health Professional) Leads Network; Royal College of Psychiatrists; British Association of Social Workers; Royal College of Nursing
  • 22 November 2022: Care Quality Commission (CQC); NHS Providers; Mental Health Network of the NHS Confederation; Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
  • 23 November 2022: Department of Health and Social Care; Department of Health and Social Care; Department of Health and Social Care; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Justice
  • 23 November 2022: NHS England; NHS England