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by DanBC 3214 days ago
There are large amounts of coercion in care for people with mental illness or people with learning disabilities.

Things like community treatment orders are based on coercion.

This only applies to quite small numbers of people, but we can't say they don't happen.

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There's also a large amount of coercion in keeping mentally ill people locked up in a prison because the government won't pay for them to receive treatment in the community, of course...
You're right that we can't say "no coercion happens in the NHS", but we can reasonably say "any coercion that happens in the NHS is orthogonal to its single-payer nature". CTOs are definitely in the grey area between the legal and healthcare systems.