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Taking another tilt at high secure hospitals: the Tilt Report and its consequences for secure psychiatric services
- Authors:
- EXWORTHY Tim, GUNN John
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(6), June 2003, pp.469-471.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
It is salutary to reflect that the security review of high secure hospitals derived from the second Ashworth Inquiry which accused individuals of being ignorant of 'the proper balance of security and therapy'. Yet the Report is an incomplete consideration of the composite nature of security in a high-security hospital. Its recommendations have greatest impact on procedural aspects, but also include high-profile ideas such as additional perimeter security, which are difficult to justify on the evidence presented. The Report ignores completely the value of having adequate numbers of appropriately trained staff from all disciplines to enhance and develop therapeutic programmes and thereby improve relational security.
The mentally disordered offender
- Editors:
- HERBST Katia, GUNN John
- Publishers:
- Butterworth-Heinemann, Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 266p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Provides an interdisciplinary forum on the mentally disordered offender. Aimed at psychiatrists, prison doctors, lawyers, magistrates, prison officers and social workers. Contains sections on the mentally disordered offender in the courts, in prison, in hospital and in the community.