Mental Health Bill [HL] — Doctors' involvement in Community Treatment Orders — 26 Feb 2007 at 18:22
The mental health bill is largely being used to amend the 1983 Mental Health Act. This is therefore an amendment to a bill to amend that Act.
In some cases in the community the responsible clinician may be a community psychiatric nurse or other professional who is not a psychiatrist.
This amendment would make it mandatory for a doctor - normal either the patient's GP or a psychiatrist to be agree with the decision to place the patient under a Community Treatment Order
The Lords approved the amendment
Their Lordships divided: Contents, 173; Not-Contents, 140.
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.| Party | Majority (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 2 | 0 | 7.7% |
| Con | 87 (+1 tell) | 0 | 42.3% |
| Crossbench | 22 | 3 | 13.2% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 1 | 135 (+2 tell) | 63.9% |
| LDem | 55 (+1 tell) | 0 | 70.9% |
| Total: | 169 | 138 | 43.2% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.