A demographic study of the Orchard Clinic: Scotland's first medium secure unit

Forensic services in Scotland are evolving, based on similar developments previously in England and Wales. The Orchard Clinic in Edinburgh is the first medium secure unit to open in Scotland. This paper aims to describe the patients admitted to the unit in the first five years of its operation, to c...

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Published in:The journal of forensic psychiatry & psychology 2010-02, Vol.21 (1), p.135
Main Authors: Gow, Rona L, Choo, Melissa, Darjee, Rajan, Gould, Susan, Steele, Jonathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Benchmarks
Comparative analysis
Demographics
Forensic psychiatry
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Summary:Forensic services in Scotland are evolving, based on similar developments previously in England and Wales. The Orchard Clinic in Edinburgh is the first medium secure unit to open in Scotland. This paper aims to describe the patients admitted to the unit in the first five years of its operation, to consider antecedents to their admission, patient characteristics and progress through the system. With the development of a new service it is important to benchmark against established services and, therefore, a comparison is made with earlier studies of forensic populations in Scotland and elsewhere in the UK. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1478-9949
1478-9957