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Sir: The Mental Health (Patients in the Commu nity) Act 1995 came into force on 1 April 1996
Sir: Phillip Vaughan is rightly con cerned that some consultants have not embraced the supervision register (Psychiatric Bulletin, 20, 143-145) he does not mention the possibility that the criteria can be used in different ways by different consultants
My observation is that an increasing number of legal representatives of detained patients are advising the Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs) that patients be placed on after-care under super vision (Supervised Discharge)
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Sir: The Mental Health (Patients in the Commu nity) Act 1995 came into force on 1 April 1996. Sir: Phillip Vaughan is rightly con cerned that some consultants have not embraced the supervision register (Psychiatric Bulletin, 20, 143-145) he does not mention the possibility that the criteria can be used in different ways by different consultants. The criteria for inclusion may be open to Interpretation despite Depart ment of Health assurances (Glover et al 1994). Some consultants may regard the care given to a vulnerable patient as being so good that the circumstances would not arise where the risk of suicide, violence or neglect would increase.
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