The government will appoint an inquiry to reform the 30-year-old law on psychiatric compulsory care. The announcement follows the murder in Boden on Christmas Day last year.
Social Minister Jakob Forssmed (KD), Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (M) and Lina Nordquist (L) write in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter that care swings between full coercion and total freedom. For seriously ill and vulnerable patients, this swinging between extremes creates serious risks, they state. The inquiry will propose ways for compulsory care to begin without always starting on a closed ward. The government also wants to enable more intermediate care forms and increase opportunities for phased-out compulsory care.
