Taskforce calls for people facing crises to get 24/7 support including intensive home treatment and for suicide rates to be reduced by 10%
Steve Hughes's insight:
“For too many, especially black, Asian and minority ethnic people, their first experience of mental health care comes when they are detained under the Mental Health Act, often with police involvement, followed by a long stay in hospital,” Farmer and the taskforce’s vice-chair, Jacqui Dyer, a counsellor, mental health service user and carer, state in the report’s foreword.
This is such a traumatising experience for many people!