New counter-terror rules give GPs bizarre incentives to refer mental health patients as radicalisation threat
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Doctors face hard choices. via shutterstock.com Mental health trusts in England are now to play a vital role in processing the huge number of citizens referred under the government´s counter-terrorism strategy, known as Prevent. A new policy announced in November by the Home Office means urgent psychiatric care will now be provided by mental health trusts to those people with psychological problems who are referred to Prevent. But this will remove them from a pipeline of support under a programme called Channel , aimed at those suspected of radicalising. No one could possibly object to the provision of mental health care to those in need. But on deeper inspection, the integration of mental...