I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is ignoring the fact that, because of the assumption that people with personality disorders were not treatable, services to treat them have not been properly developed over a period of many years. But, of course, as he and I would both recognise, such disorders can be treated. Those services need to be developed and we do not need an unnecessarily complex piece of law, which has been interpreted in the way that I have described, getting in the way of the treatment needed by patients who are seriously ill.
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Patricia Hewitt
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 April 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Mental Health Bill [HL].
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