Towards an Understanding of Supervised Community Treatment
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https://doi.org/10.19164/ijmhcl.v1i17.256Abstract
I intend here to look at two related areas: first, the actual powers that supervised community treatment provides to clinicians, especially in relation to the administration of treatment, and, second, the relationship of SCT with the other community powers of the Mental Health Act, especially the power under s.17 to allow detained patients leave from hospital. Whether such a focus will enable us to be “sure of the thing” that is SCT is perhaps doubtful, and we obviously cannot resolve the question of how (or indeed if) the SCT regime will be operated in practice across England and Wales, but it may help us to think more clearly about the possibilities and prepare ourselves to untangle some of the knots established in the primary legislation. I will conclude with some comments on the potential numbers of patients involved and whether Scotland’s experience of community treatment orders tells us anything about the likely implementation of powers in England and Wales.
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