UK government is defeated on community treatment orders

doi:10.1136/bmj.39140.465764.DB

BMJ 2007;334:447 (3 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39140.465764.DB

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UK government is defeated on community treatment orders

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent

BMJ

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The government was defeated in the House of Lords this weekover a key plank of its mental health bill for England and Wales,compulsory treatment in the community.

A further defeat this week, to ensure that children are notadmitted to adult psychiatric wards, brings the total of defeatsthat the peers have inflicted on the government over the controversialbill to six.

The latest successful amendments came only a week after peersinflicted three defeats on the government, imposing new safeguardson powers to detain mental health patients (BMJ 2007;334:384,24 Feb, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.464444.DB).

As the report stage of the bill ended in the House of Lords,ministers were facing a decision on how far they would try toreverse the defeats when the bill, which has yet to be debatedby MPs, goes to the House of Commons.

The key amendment this week, passed by . . . [Full text of this article]

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