supervised discharge

supervised discharge
(in England and Wales) discharge from a psychiatric hospital of a patient who has been admitted under Section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Under Section 25 of the Act, it requires the discharged patient to comply with a stipulated care plan; if compliance is not achieved, the psychiatric treatment team can instigate a Mental Health Act assessment of that patient with a view to compulsory readmission. Similar arrangements exist in Scotland.

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