A LEIGH mental health group is backing a national week of action.
The Oasis Club has organised an open day today in the Chapel Street drop-in centre between 1pm and 6pm.
A group spokesman said one in four adults will experience mental health problems over the next year.
The last Act was produced in 1983 and the next is expected to last just as long, so it is vital that it is designed to support and help.
The group believes that the new Act should concentrate on reducing the need to use compulsion in treatment and provide a legal right to a comprehensive mental health assessment when needed.
Accessing quality services at the time they are needed would make the most dramatic improvements to people's lives, at the Oasis there is a speedy referral system.
The spokesman said: "Mental health is an issue for everyone and if Leigh people can help to persuade our local MPs to stand up for these principles
les when the new Act goes through Parliament, we will all be better off."
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