Background: New Zealand operates a well-embedded community treatment order scheme
for patients with serious mental disorders. A similar scheme may be enacted for England …

Objective: To determine New Zealand mental health clinicians' views about community
treatment orders, indications for their use, their benefits, problems and impact on patients …

Objective: To assess the uses of Community Treatment Orders (CommTOs) in New Zealand.
Method: A retrospective study of patients' records held by the regional administrator of …

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to analyse how, for whom, under what
circumstances, and with what consequences for a patient's treatment career the community …

New Zealand legislation allows for the involuntary outpatient treatment of people with
serious mental illness. This study examines the views of service users, family members and …

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 …

Aims and methodCommunity treatment orders (CTOs) have been used more than
anticipated. We report data from the North Wales audit about their current use and explain …

Objectives: Community treatment orders (CTOs) allow clinicians to provide unconsented
outpatient treatment to people living with mental illness. Though controversial and of …

Objective In the light of recent legislation, this paper reviews the implementation of the
Community Treatment Order (CTO) in terms of clinical efficacy and ethical issues involved in …

Aims and methodTo ascertain the views and experiences of psychiatrists in England and
Wales regarding community treatment orders (CTOs). We mailed 1928 questionnaires to …