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A question of numbers : the potential impact of community-based treatment orders in England and Wales.

Author:

Lawton-Smith, Simon and King's Fund

Publication date:

2005

Abstract:

Compulsory community-based treatment orders require patients at risk of harming themselves or others to comply with a set of conditions, such as taking their medication, while living in the community. The draft Mental Health Bill 2004 incorporates plans to introduce compulsory orders in England and Wales, but it is not ...