Mentally Disordered Offenders

Guidance and forms for those working with mentally disordered offenders (restricted patients).

The guidance covers work with restricted patients detained in hospital and those discharged into the community.

Guidance

• Guidance for clinical supervisors (PDF 0.18mb 31 pages)

• Guidance for social supervisors (PDF 0.21mb 36 pages)

• The recall of conditionally discharged restricted patients (PDF 0.07mb 13 pages)

• Leave guidance for responsible clinicians (PDF 0.12mb 19 pages)

• Guidance for the courts on remand and sentencing powers for mentally disordered offenders (PDF 0.11mb 23 pages)

• Foreign national restricted patients - guidance on repatriation (PDF 0.05mb 6 pages)

• Guidance for clinicians: duties to victims under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (PDF 0.06mb 8 pages)

Forms

• Report on conditionally discharged restricted patient (Word 0.17mb 7 pages)

• Remission to prison of section 47 or section 48 patients (Word 0.07mb 2 pages)

• Leave application for restricted patients (Word 0.09mb 2 pages)

• Report on completed leave (Word 0.07mb 2 pages)

• Application for trial leave or full transfer to another hospital (Word 0.09mb 3 pages)

• Application for trial leave or full transfer to another hospital - guidance (Word 0.09mb 1 pages)

• Assessment of patient by medical officer (Word 0.08mb 2 pages)

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