Public consultation launched to help develop Mental Health Act statistics

The NHS Information Centre (NHS IC) has launched a public consultation on how one of its major mental health statistical reports should be further developed.Views are welcome from groups and individuals - from health professionals to the general public - about shaping the future content of the well established annual report; ‘Inpatients Detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, and Patients subject to Supervised Community treatment’. The report summarises information about uses of the Mental Health Act including Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) and Place of Safety orders in England;