Clause 32
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
2:45 pm
Tim Loughton (Shadow Minister (Children), Health; East Worthing and Shoreham, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 64, in clause 32, page 20, line 35, at end insert—
‘(d) the following persons have been consulted about the making of a community treatment order—
(i) the patient;
(ii) any person with parental responsibility;
(iii) any person who the responsible clinician believes will play a substantial part in the care of the patient after he leaves hospital but will not be professionally concerned with the after-care services to be provided to him; and
(iv) the nearest relative of the patient
and the responsible clinician has taken into account any views expressed by the persons consulted,
(e) in this section “parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1989 (c. 41).’.