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18 June 2007
Mental health service users photographed outside Parliament to highlight the Alliance’s campaign for a more rights-based Bill.
Diane Hackney and Marion Janner outside Parliament.
Andrew Voyce, Oliver Wood, Diane Hackney and Marion Janner were today supporting the Mental Health Alliance’s campaign for a mental health Bill which treats service users and their families fairly.
The Alliance would like to see a Mental Health Bill fit for the 21st century which allows service users to have more of a say in their care. Amendments to the Bill produced by the Alliance would allow patients to have a say in how they are treated, be able to appeal against conditions placed upon them and nominate a person to be contacted when they are detained.
We asked people across the country to go and meet their MP at their surgery on Friday 18th May.
If you went to meet your MP, please email katharine.boaden@scmh.org.uk or call 020 7716 6782 and tell us how it went.
Diane Hackney, Earl Howe, Baroness Murphy, Lord Bragg and Baroness Neuberger about to go in to Downing Street.
Peers including Lord Melvyn Bragg (President of mental health charity Mind), Earl Howe (Conservative Spokesperson for Health), Baroness Murphy (crossbencher, Professor in Psychiatry) and Baroness Neuberger (Lib Dem Spokesperson for Health) visited 10 Downing Street on Tuesday, 20 March to hand in the Mental Health Alliance's PETITION on the reform of the Mental Health Act.
They were joined by Diane Hackney, a mental health service user, to send a clear message to the Prime Minister about the scale of opposition to the Government’s plans for the Bill.
Lord Bragg, Baroness Murphy, Diane Hackney, Baroness Neuberger and Earl Howe outside No 10 with the petition.
The petition has been running since June 2006. It has been signed by 9,000 people from across the country who want to see a fair and just Bill that will give people a legal right to care and treatment when they first need it, not neglecting them until some may reach a crisis state.
The Alliance would like to thank everyone who signed the petition and those who circulated it to friends and colleagues.