The following tables relate to new compulsory measures granted between 1st April and 30th June 2009, compared with previous quarters.
Summary:
The number of new civil orders granted has shown little change over the last four quarters (Figure 1). The numbers of criminal proceedings are too small to display on the graph and are shown in Table 1.
There has been a slight decrease this quarter in the number of new community-based CTOs, from 39 to 30.
Variations of existing hospital-based orders to community-based orders have fallen between quarter 1 and quarter 2 in 2009. There has been a decrease from 80 to 71 (Table 2).
The number of people subject to community CTOs, who are temporarily recalled to hospital, shows a slight decrease, 28 being recalled out of 34 occasions. For two consecutive quarters no one was on a community based compulsion order on the point prevalence date. (Table 3).
Table 4 reports on incidence of people subject to emergency and short-term measures by age and gender. There have been some slight changes from the previous quarter's figures. The number of females subject to short term detentions has decreased from 402 to 448 whereas males subject to STDs have increased from 378 to 406.
The numbers of females subject to emergency detentions have decreased from 253 last quarter to 273 this quarter and in males subject to emergency detention, there has been an increase from 190 to 236
Figure 1: Civil compulsory measures granted by type across Scotland by quarter
*includes hospital and community-based orders; figure supplied by the Mental Health Tribunal Scotland for the period April to June 2009.
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Table 1: Orders granted under criminal proceedings* across Scotland, quarterly data
*Criminal Procedures (Scotland) Act 1995, amended by the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 Part 8
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Table 2: Community-based compulsory treatment orders across Scotland, quarterly data
Note: Where an interim community-based order was followed by a long-term variation to the community, this was counted as one event.
These figures include recalls to hospital through use of emergency and short-term orders.
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Table 3: Community-based compulsion orders across Scotland, quarterly data
Note: Where an interim community-based order was followed by a long-term variation to the community, this was recorded as one event.
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Table 4: Civil compulsory measures granted by age of person at detention date and gender, 1 April to 30 June 2009
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Notes on the data:
For this quarter (Q2 2009), for new orders granted, we have used figures supplied by the Mental Health Tribunal.
For variations, we have used our own figures.
August 2009
