Hello, I was just wondering, if a patient is transferred to England with Scottish paperwork (CTO) do we need clinical scrutiny to be done on these papers, or does this not apply?
The warrant issued in Scotland is the authority for detaining the patient in England/Wales (or receiving them onto a community treatment order, as the case may be). The warrant doesn’t depend on medical recommendations in the same way as, say, a s3 application, so doesn’t need clinical scrutiny in the normal sense. But, of course, the ongoing duty to ensure the patient continues to meet the criteria for detention/CTO applies from the moment the patient arrives, so not sure how much practical difference that makes.