Victoria to conduct review into coercive practices in mental health system

Announcement comes as peak advocacy group calls on government to end compulsory seclusion and restraint on wards

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The Victorian government will require patient advocacy services be notified of any compulsory treatment under changes to Victoria's mental health system, with a former federal court judge to lead a review into the criteria used for coercive practices.

But the state's peak mental health body said the proposed Mental Health and Wellbeing Act - unveiled by the government on Thursday in response to a scathing royal commission - would not create fundamental change" for patients.