- The number of people receiving electroconvulsive therapy against their consent has risen 25% to over 1,500 people per year. - Over 5,000 people are subject to community treatment orders where they are often forcibly injected with medication that reduces life expectancy. - Under the 2007 Mental Health Act, a patient cannot stay in the hospital without forced psychiatric treatment, even if the treatment is not necessary to prevent harm to themselves or others.

1. Ambitious, populist…
Labour reduced human rights
Tardive dyskinesia -
deformity of the face
caused by forced
psychiatric medication
• Over the last three years, the number of people given Electro Convulsive Therapy
against consent has risen by 25% to over 1,500 people a year.
• Over 5,000 people are subject to community treatment orders, where they are often
force-ably injected with medication that reduces life expectancy significantly.
• Under the 2007 Mental Health Act, a patient is usually not able to stay in hospital
without forced psychiatric treatment. But once a patient is in hospital, psychiatric
treatment is not necessary to prevent harm to self or others.
Labour introduced the 2007 Mental Health Act* in a whipped voteANDREW
DISMORE
Labour took away patient rights. They won’t answer the question on whether they will return them.
Direct question to candidate: ‘will you commit to allow patients not to have forced psychiatric treatment
once a patient is detained in so far as this is not necessary to prevent harm to self or others.’
No response. Predictable. This is not a vote winner, so not a priority.
* Test for State intervention under 2007 Act is only ‘availability of appropriate treatment’. This has made it much easier to give psychiatric treatment. Forced treatment is on the rise.
** All we have asked is that consent be required for psychiatric treatment. Once a patient is in hospital psychiatric treatment is not necessary to prevent harm to self or others. But under current legislation, consent is not required
for psychiatric treatment. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009647344618
No commitment from candidate to return rights when asked. Still waiting**.