The use of community treatment orders in competent patients is not justified.

Br J Psychiatry

Giles Newton-Howes, MBChB, MRCPsych, FRANZCP, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand; Christopher James Ryan, MBBS, MHL, FRANZCP, Discipline of Psychiatry and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Published: May 2017

Empirical evidence for the effectiveness of community treatment orders (CTOs) is at best mixed. We examine CTOs through the prism of human rights and discrimination, bearing the evidence in mind, and argue that a necessary condition for their use is that a person lacks decision-making capacity.

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