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  Mental Health Bill [HL] - Treatbility test.
  
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  <p>The mental health bill is largely being used to amend the <a href="http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?activeTextDocId=1729080">1983 Mental Health Act</a>. This is therefore an amendment to a bill to amend that Act.</p>
  
  
  <p>The Bill proposed an addition of a somewhat tautological clause stating that appropriate treatment was treatment which is "appropriate in his case" taking all things into account.</p>
  
  <p>This amendment, accepted by the Lords, made things marginally clearer by defining appropriate treatment as 
   "likely to alleviate or prevent a deterioration in his condition."</p>
  
  <p>The fundamental aim being that the patient himself should be better off after the intervention rather than just contained.</p>
  
  
  <p>Their Lordships divided: Contents, 186; Not-Contents, 115.</p>
  
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