Community Patients.

Getting admission to hospital for care or treatment

If you feel that you’re in need of a hospital admission for care or treatment, we can advise on what steps you will need to take.
Entitlement to after-care (section 117 Mental Health Act 1983)
If you have previously been detained in hospital for treatment under the Mental Health Act, you will have a legal right to ‘after-care’ when you leave hospital. We can advise on what after-care covers, what steps you can take to make sure you get it, and what steps to take it if you’re not getting the after-care you need.
Community treatment orders
If you have been discharged from hospital under a community treatment order (a ‘CTO’), we can advise on what the CTO means, what you are required to do under it, and what steps you can take to get it removed. One way to challenge it would to apply to a Mental Health Tribunal for discharge. We can advise on when and how to apply, and we can provide expert representation at the Tribunal itself.