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Section 48: an underused provision?

Published:1992-02 Issue:2 Volume:16 Page:97-98
ISSN:0955-6036
Container-title:Psychiatric Bulletin
language:en
Short-container-title:Psychiatr. bull.

Author:

Exworthy Tim,Parrott Janet M.,Bridges Paul K.

Abstract

Section 48 of the Mental Health Act, 1983 (MHA) permits the Secretary of State to authorise the removal to hospital of an unsentenced prisoner who is ‘suffering from mental illness or severe mental impairment of a nature or degree which makes it appropriate for him to be detained in a hospital for medical treatment and that he is in urgent need of such treatment’. (Mental Health Act, 1983). Its common usage in the past has been in transfers of unsentenced prisoners from prison to hospital.

Publisher

Royal College of Psychiatrists

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health

Reference6 articles.

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2. Home Office (1990) Provision for Mentally Disordered Offenders. Circular No. 66/90.

3. Johnson A. (1991) Social staff ‘failed to help high suicide risk inmate’. The Guardian, 4 April.

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