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The pattern of delays in Mental Health Review Tribunals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephen Blumenthal  and
Simon Wessely
Stephen Blumenthal
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS
Simon Wessely
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS
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Abstract

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Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs) are intended to protect the liberty of the detained patient. In practice, however, they have been said to fall short of providing this safeguard. This is frequently for administrative reasons. We report a systematic examination of the pattern of delays in holding MHRTs. Our main finding is that delay cannot be attributed to a single factor but rather reflects the inherent complexity of some cases.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 7 , July 1994 , pp. 398 - 400
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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