SF v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Subject Matter

MENTAL HEALTH — Medical treatment — “Appropriate medical treatment” — Patient detained in hospital for treatment — Patient’s mother applying for patient’s discharge on ground “appropriate medical treatment” not available — Whether “appropriate medical treatment” available if essential treatment not available — Whether treatment to prevent physical harm capable of amounting to “appropriate medical treatment” — Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20), ss 72(1)(b)(iia), 145(4)

[2023] UKUT 205 (AAC); [2024] 1 WLR 1540; [2023] WLR(D) 438, UT