SF (as Nearest Relative of RB) v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and RB: [2023] UKUT 205 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Church on 15 August 2023.
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Judicial Summary
Conditions to continued detention - Mental Health Act 1983 s72(1)(b)(iia) � requirement that ‘appropriate medical treatment� be available in hospital � whether treatment provided with the aim of keeping the patient ‘physically well, safe and protect those seeking to care for her� (but no more) satisfied the requirement for therapeutic intent � whether the tribunal was entitled to find that the treatment available in hospital was ‘appropriate� in circumstances where it had identified treatment which it found to be “essential� but that treatment was not available in the hospital where the patient was detained.