Letters
Anti-therapeutic community mental health law
BMJ 1995; 310 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6993.1530 (Published 10 June 1995) Cite this as: BMJ 1995;310:1530
Chief medical officer defends the Mental Health Bill
- K C Calman
- Chief medical officer Department of Health, London SW1A 2NS
EDITOR,—Nigel Eastman's editorial seems deliberately to present the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Bill in the most negative possible light.1 I would like to redress the balance. Eastman says that the bill “attempts to substitute legal rules for resources.” The increased resources devoted to the care of mentally ill people are a matter of record, and I will not repeat it here. But the assertion simply does not stand up. The purpose of aftercare under supervision is defined as being to …
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