Hi all,
A patient was discharged from section 3 in 2018. The responsible clinician signed off on the section 23 discharge form ticking ‘The patient will be discharged from hospital/CTO on (date) //2018.’
The patient was then forced into the care of their family, GP and the community and had to sign a ‘Care Plan - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team offer’.
They were also allocated a care coordinator for those years monitoring anything they did on a weekly / monthly basis.
The patient did not want to sign this document (care plan) as they stated from the beginning they were not suffering from any evidential condition. It was illegitimately done.
Now, what I am struggling to understand here. The patient according to this document (s23 discharge form); it appears they were completely discharged from any section and community order. The patient afterwards was made to believe they had to comply to whatever they wanted and take serious medication that damaged their body for a year or so. And it left them physically having to rehabilitate the damage done to their movements for years after.
If the patient was not under a CTO - then why was the patient made to take this medication without their consent? The patient during that period shared they did not consent to treatment multiple times - but it was ignored.
With a CTO they are given the right to an advocate and a tribunal - none of this was offered to the patient during this community treatment plan which lasted between 2019 and 2021 - two years. Two years of their life without any choice from them to leave that plan.
If someone can explain here in a clear and simple way what has happened here and what can be done now - I would appreciate it.
Thanks.