The problem with the Human Rights Act. It gives no rights to psychiatric patients and punishes them as they do criminals

It's fundamentally anti-psychiatric rights.

From this excellent blog.
http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2010/07/23/deprivation-of-liberty-best-interests-test-compatible-with-human-rights-law/

"
Article 5 provides

1. Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one
shall be deprived of his liberty save in the following cases and in
accordance with a procedure prescribed by law:

(e) the lawful detention of persons … of unsound mind…
"

The law means psychiatric patients are treated as criminals.