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Article: Health boards face lawsuits over lack of alternatives to Carstairs
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- May 23, 2006
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THE head of Scotland's Mental Welfare Commission has warned health
boards that they face legal action at the Court of Session from 20
mentally ill patients who he says are "entrapped" in Carstairs.
Patients - including those sectioned for rape or murder - were
recently given the right to be moved to a medium security unit when
their condition improves. But a lack of available accommodation has
left patients with nowhere to go.
Dr Donald Lyons, director of the Mental Welfare Commission for
Scotland, said around 20 patients are waiting to be moved from the
state hospital in Lanarkshire, including four who have been waiting
for two years or more.
He is now expecting patients to go to the ...