Anti-therapeutic community mental health law

Abstract

The bill allows a power of aftercare under supervision in respect of a patient who (at the time that the order is made) is an inpatient detained for treatment (or is already in the community but still formally detained) and who would represent “a substantial risk of serious harm” to his or her own safety or health, or to the safety of others, or would be at risk of being “seriously exploited,” if he or she did not receive aftercare services on leaving hospital. But the medical recommendations must also state: “his being subject to aftercare under supervision …