Clause 32
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
3:15 pm
Ann Winterton (Congleton, Conservative)
It will be the clinician who decides whether such treatment is the appropriate course of action for an individual patient. The hon. Member for Daventry said that it was important that the decision was clinical. That is exactly why we are opposing the changes proposed by the Opposition. They would put unnecessary restrictions on the clinician’s ability to decide whether the treatment was right for the individual patient.
The clinician cannot decide that a CTO could be given, if the appropriate treatment were not available. If one of the conditions was that a person was to be visited by a community team and the community team was not there, it would not be appropriate for a CTO to be given to the individual.