Sectioned but no beds available

[Helpless25]

Anyone know what happens now? Been ten days since the assessment.

So I think they are being a bit misleading there. They have 2 weeks after the doctor has made the recommendation in which they can complete the paperwork and admit someone to hospital under a section 2 - but until that paperwork is completed with the hospital named and the person admitted the person is NOT under a section 2. Section 2 starts from the date of admission to hospital for assessment (and lasts a maximum of 28 days) it's not tied to date of recommendation.

They could request another assessment if the 14 days run out, although it might be more difficult to get 2 doctors to recommend compulsory admission if the person doesn't want to go into hospital and you've just demonstrated they can be cared for at home for 2 weeks.

The paperwork will say where he has been detained to… I don’t think they can write ‘home’. Have you seen the paperwork?

Sorry I just caught up with all the replies. I think that they’ve made a recommendation for section 2

They are now in a secure unit. Thanks everyone for the input.

Im glad it was resolved and I hope they get better soon. I guess PICU and secure beds are less common than general beds but this does also imply that there would be risk in staying at home if such a bed was needed. I would suggest you consider a complaint to the MH trust as this clearly was a bad situation that is not supposed to happen and suggests they need to change their policies and/ or commission more beds.