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{{Resource
|Title=Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983
|Organisation=Department of Health
|Date=2017/10/04
|Date closed=2018/12/31
|Type=Consultation
|Sentence=MHA reform
|Abstract=Extract from website: "The review was set up to look at how the legislation in the Mental Health Act 1983 is used and how practice can improve. The purpose of the review is to understand the reasons for: (a) rising rates of detention under the Act; (b) the disproportionate number of people from black and minority ethnic groups detained under the Act; (c) processes that are out of step with a modern mental health care system. The review will seek the views of service users, carers, relevant professionals, and affected organisations in producing recommendations. It will produce a report with recommendations for change in autumn 2018."
|Detail===Pre-report==
*{{rsum|Department of Health, 'Terms of Reference - Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983' (policy paper, 4/10/17)}}

*{{rsum|Law Society, 'Mental Health Act 1983 Independent Review: Call for Evidence: Law Society response' (22/1/18)}}

==The Wessely report==
*{{rsum|Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, 'Modernising the Mental Health Act: Increasing choice, reducing compulsion' (final report, 6/12/18)}}

==Post-report==
*{{rsum|SSHSC, LC and SSJ, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act' (CP 355, 2021, consultation from 13/1/21 to 21/4/21)}}

*{{rsum|SSHSC, LC and SSJ, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act: Government response to consultation' (CP 501, July 2021)}}

*{{lsum|Mental Health Bill 2022}}
|External links=*[https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/independent-review-of-the-mental-health-act Gov.uk: main page]
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|RSS pubdate=2019/02/25 11:44:22 PM
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