Hm Courts Tribunals Service
October 11
10:06
2023
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Judicial Summary
Conditions to continued detention - Mental Health Act 1983 s72(1)(b)(iia) requirement that appropriate medical treatment be available in hospital whether treatment provided with the aim of keeping the patient physically well, safe and protect those seeking to care for her (but no more) satisfied the requirement for therapeutic intent whether the tribunal was entitled to find that the treatment available in hospital was appropriate in circumstances where it had identified treatment which it found to be essential but that treatment was not available in the hospital where the patient was detained.