Mental Health Bill will do nothing for public safety, research shows - article in The Independent.
Extract:
"The biggest reform of mental health legislation in 50 years will be thrown into disarray today by research showing a key aspect of the proposals is unlikely to work.
Government measures to force patients discharged from psychiatric hospitals to continue taking their drugs, do not improve the safety of patients or the public, according to an international review of research.
The controversial measures, supervised community treatment orders (CTOs), have been tried in six countries to deal with "revolving door" patients - those who do well in hospital but stop taking their drugs on discharge, relapse and have to be readmitted.
The review of 72 studies by the Institute of Psychiatry, commissioned by the Department of Health, says: "There is no robust evidence about the effects of CTOs on key outcomes, such as hospital readmission, length of stay, medication compliance, or the patients' quality of life.""
Well if there's no evidence that they work it is to be hoped that they will not be used. - These drugs are rarely free of side-effects, many of which are serious, and the cost of the drugs and the supervision would be considerable.
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