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Guardianship – a case for wider use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. L. Symonds
R. L. Symonds*
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Medway Hospital, Gillingham, Kent ME7 5NY
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Few psychiatrists have had much experience of guardianship (Section 7, Mental Health Act, 1983). The two cases described have been successful and suggest wider use of this section. It seems apposite in view of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' advice on discharge of patients from hospital, and discussion on a community treatment order; the continuing drive to community care, as codified in the ‘Care Programme Approach’; and the need in the future to treat increasingly disturbed individuals in the community as envisaged in the Reed report.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 5 , May 1993 , pp. 276 - 278
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