The Queen v Ealing District Health Authority, ex parte F

(1993) 4 Med LR 101

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice OTTON

Mental health — Mental patient — Mental Health Review Tribunal — Discharge — Deferred conditional discharge — Whether order final — Mental Health Act 1983 sections 37, 41(3)(5), 42(1)(5), 71(1), 72(1)(a),(b), 73(1),(2) and (7), 117(1)(2) — National Health Service Act 1977, sections 3(1)(e) and 85 — Whether health authority obliged to provide psychiatric supervision in community — Effect of intervening deterioration in patient's condition — Whether duty of authority discharged