Queensland Health is scrapping its controversial locked door policy on all public acute mental health care units.
Medical professionals and human rights advocates have welcomed the move, but not everyone believes it's for the best.
The locked ward policy, which came in under Campbell Newman in 2013, requires all entry and exit doors on adult public acute mental health inpatient units in public hospitals to be locked, regardless of whether patients are there voluntarily.
Queensland is currently the only state with a blanket locked ward policy.
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