We are being consensual across the House, and I would like to retain that spirit, but would also make the point that one of the linking factors in terms of both prisons and mental health is funding for the institutions. Staff and service users at the Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust, which is in special measures, are concerned that a reduction in the number of staff—nurses and doctors—over the past five years means they have less ability to watch and monitor patients, so it is more likely that those patients are using medication, and that means restraint is more likely to be used, so we end up with the situation that the Lewis family were in. Will the hon. Lady comment on that?
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Clive Lewis
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 3 November 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill.
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