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Section 48: an underused provision?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Tim Exworthy,
Janet M. Parrott and
Paul K. Bridges
Tim Exworthy
Affiliation:
United Medical & Dental Schools, Guy's Hospital, London SE1
Janet M. Parrott
Affiliation:
Bracton Clinic, Bexley Hospital, Kent
Paul K. Bridges
Affiliation:
United Medical & Dental Schools, Guy's Hospital, London SE1
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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.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , February 1992, pp. 97 - 98
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