Member

It is a clear principle of the Bill that any detention in a mental health hospital must have therapeutic benefit—I think we are all agreed on that. Everyone is different, and whether detention has therapeutic benefit for a person must be assessed by seeing them as an individual and understanding them as a whole person. The purpose of Amendment 45 is to clarify that the definition of “appropriate medical treatment” introduced in new Section 1A includes consideration of the setting in which treatment takes place.