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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Richard Wheeler

Mental health reforms ‘mark vital step’ in improving care quality – Streeting

The Government’s attempts to modernise mental health legislation will “not solve every problem” but mark a “vital step” in improving quality of care, according to Wes Streeting.

The Health Secretary said attitudes to mental health have “come on leaps and bounds” since the Mental Health Act 1983 before warning that the law has been “frozen in time”.

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