Number of people subject to the Mental Health Act rising in England, says NHS Information Centre report

The number of people subject to restrictions under the Mental Health Act in England has risen by five per cent in a year, new NHS Information Centre figures show today.Just over twenty thousand people (20,038) were subject to the Act in England on March 31 2011; a rise of 991 since March 31 2010 according to today’s report, which looks at those formally detained in hospital or supervised with a community treatment order. The figures suggest that this is due to a larger number of people being supervised under community treatment orders, according to: In-patients formally detained in