What is a Community Treatment Order?
A Community Treatment Order is a legal way of providing treatment to a person with a mental illness when they are unable to agree to treatment and may not be safe.
A Community Treatment Order can only be made when there are no less restrictive ways of ensuring that a person gets appropriate treatment.
What does it mean if I am on a Community Treatment Order?
If you are on a Community Treatment Order, you are required to receive treatment for your mental illness at a specific place at regular intervals. You will have access to a comprehensive range of treatments, which are based on the best available evidence about what is most effective for your mental illness. Treatment may include talk therapy, medication and other interventions.
Treatment will be provided by trained health professionals like doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and psychologists. These health professionals will be part of your team to help you to get better. You can discuss your treatment at any time with the staff who are assisting you.
If you are unable to comply with the terms of your Community Treatment Order and/or your mental illness does not improve, you may be assessed for an Inpatient Order, which would require you to stay in hospital for a period of time.
Statement of Rights brochure
You have rights as a patient under a mental health Community Treatment Order and you can read about these in the downloadable brochure, which is available in English (PDF 254KB) along with fifteen other community languages.
- عربي — Arabic (PDF 215KB)
- 简体中文 简体 — Chinese simplified (PDF 215KB)
- Hrvatski — Croatian (PDF 377KB)
- Deutsch — German (PDF 155KB)
- Ελληνικά — Greek (PDF 161KB)
- हिंदी — Hindi (PDF 398KB)
- Italiano — Italian (PDF 155KB)
- فارسی — Persian (PDF 218KB)
- Polski — Polish (PDF 284KB)
- Русский — Russian (PDF 201KB)
- Српски — Serbian (PDF 414KB)
- Sinhalese (PDF 142KB)
- Español — Spanish (PDF 156KB)
- kiswahili — Swahili (PDF 131KB)
- Tiếng Việt — Vietnamese (PDF 172KB)