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Serial
NO.
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Recommendation
Full-time psychiatrist for Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre
MHD to consider a full-time psychiatrist post for Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre with wider consultancy responsibility for the forensic side for the whole of the Territory.
Present position
Replaced by alternative
action.
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Expansion of Siu Lam
Psychiatric Centre
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The project should be accelerated to provide more additional places as soon as possible.
Improvement to security ward facilities in Castle Peak Hospital
Dangerous patients on remand after committing serious violent offences and convicted offenders detained under a hospital order are at present accommodated in the same overcrowded security ward as non-offenders. Facilities need to be improved to isolate those who are tentatively dangerous.
Provision of special half-way houses
(a) Half-way houses for non-
offenders: the admission
criteria of half-way houses for non-offenders should be
reasonably lenient to admit
non-offenders with a
disposition to violence;
(b) half-way houses for offenders : the staffing provision of these half-way houses should be improved;
(c) half-way houses for target
group patients: sufficient places should be provided for the wider target group to be accommodated on a voluntary
basis.
Action being taken.
Action completed.
Action on-going. (See Serial No.
8)