Legislation

Section 17A – Community treatment orders

Introduction

Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) discharge a patient from hospital but also confer power on the responsible clinician to recall the patient to hospital. Chapter 29 of the Code of Practice is devoted to CTOs. Section 34 defines “responsible clinician”. Section 17A, and the other CTO provisions, were inserted by the Mental Health Act 2007, whose […]

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