Policy paper

Draft Mental Health Bill 2022: easy read

Plans to change the law that tells people what to do when you need to stay in hospital after a mental health crisis.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 26 September 2022

This was published under the 2022 Truss Conservative government

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Changing the law on mental health (easy read)

PDF, 1.7 MB, 19 pages

Details

We want to make mental health care better for people.

The government wants to change the law called the Mental Health Act. We decided to make changes to the law after there was a big review.

We want to make changes so people do not stay in hospital unless they need to. We also want the changes to stop people being taken to a police or prison cell when waiting for care and treatment.

We have written our ideas in a draft bill. This means you can look at it before it is final.

The next thing to happen is Parliament will look at our ideas. They will tell us how they think we can change our ideas to make a better law.

Published 26 September 2022