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You mentioned that the NUS was the only organisation to say that it wished to give oral evidence to us, but I think that I am right in saying that we contacted a number of groups and organisations.
After I met them, I was immediately and directly contacted by Farooq Tariq, who is the general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, and others in the organisation.
The statement says:"Only half of those referred attend clinics".We need more people in the community to make non-judgmental contact with people who are infected by the disease.
Given the comments that have been made, we need to make contact with the council. I also suggest that we ask the council and the commission what contact the two bodies have had on the issue, given the importance that the council seems to have placed on the 2001 act.
The confidential inquiry into suicide and homicide that was produced earlier this year showed that 25 per cent of those who had committed suicide had had recent contact with mental health services.We take suicide seriously.