Mental Health Act 2025

Labour will modernise mental health legislation to give patients greater choice, autonomy and enhanced rights.

The bill's long title states it makes 'provision to amend the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to mentally disordered persons', which confirms it is Mental Health Act reform legislation that has received Royal Assent. This directly satisfies the metric 'Mental Health Act reform legislation passed'. However, the bill text provided does not contain any specific provisions that would allow assessment of whether it delivers 'greater choice, autonomy and enhanced rights' for patients as promised. The short and long titles confirm this is mental health legislation reform, but without the substantive clauses, we cannot verify the promise's specific commitments about patient choice, autonomy and rights are addressed in the bill's actual provisions.