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<p>The Prime Minister announced an independent review of mental health legislation
and practice to tackle the issue of mental health detention on 4 October 2017. The
independent review will look at a range of issues, and central to this will be a consideration
of why rates of detention are increasing, and what can be done to reduce inappropriate
detention and improve how different agencies respond to people in crisis. The review
will make recommendations to Government in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this,
NHS England is considering the findings of the independent Commission to review the
provision of acute inpatient psychiatric care for adults and intends to publish a
response shortly. The Commission was established by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
in January 2015 to review the provision of acute inpatient psychiatric beds. Its report
<em>Old problems New Solutions: Improving acute psychiatric care for adults in England</em>,
published in January 2016, made a number of recommendations for improving the service.
A copy of the report is attached.</p>
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