Mind wants more patient power Much-needed changes in mental health legislation should give patients the right to the best treatment regardless of cost, says a report by a leading charity.
Mind wants patients to have increased rights to the most effective healthcare.
It has long campaigned for more expensive mental health drugs, with less side effects than older medication, to be made more widely available. Its report, Mind the Law, has been submitted as evidence to the body reviewing the Mental Health Act of 1983. A draft report on proposed changes is due to be published by the government in the next few weeks. Mind says current legal safeguards are not working. Personality disorder More than half of the people surveyed said the Mental Health Act 1983 did not cover the groups it should.