My Community Care colleagues have written some excellent mental health articles over the past day or so:

• Detained patients could be denied access to justice under government plans to axe a key watchdog
• There are too many delays when patients appeal to a tribunal against their detention
• The government has launched a £5m pilot to divert offenders with mental health problems from prison
• Patients are being held unclothed in seclusion units and denies access to toilets in overcrowded wards, inspectors have found

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/2011/03/justice-delays-diversion-and-s.html