{"id":548350,"date":"2025-11-04T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/548350\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:38:16","slug":"psychiatric-doctors-face-police-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/548350\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatric doctors face police legal action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/psychiatric_clinic_hospital.jpg\" alt=\"Psychiatric doctors face police legal action\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/psychiatric_clinic_hospital-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A police union in northeast Attica has filed criminal complaints against psychiatrists at public mental health facilities, accusing them of continuous dereliction of duty and endangering patients.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint could result in preliminary examinations for many psychiatrists who have worked emergency shifts since February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute stems from a February 2024 directive requiring psychiatric facilities to immediately accept patients brought by police and release officers without delay. Doctors protested they couldn\u2019t comply due to workload and bed shortages.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry and police subsequently warned psychiatrists they face criminal charges if they require additional examinations or inform officers that no beds are available.<\/p>\n<p>Medical associations condemned the lawsuit as \u201cunprecedented\u201d and accused authorities of \u201ccriminalizing psychiatric practice\u201d while ignoring critical bed shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police union in northeast Attica has filed criminal complaints against psychiatrists at public mental health facilities, accusing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[188,105,1491,7898,218,529,4678,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-548350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-in-depth","11":"tag-justice","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-society","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115491236898445002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}