Updates

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Health Bureau: voluntarily admitted psychiatric patients may be compulsorily detained where there is violence” (《精神病患自願入院倘使暴力 醫衛局: 可被強制羈留》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Turning voluntary admission of psychiatric patients into compulsory admission | No reference in guidelines to “violence” possibly to avoid triggering the need to amend legislation | Scholar worries that the tightened standards will make patients feel cheated” (《精神科自願變強制入院 指引沒提「暴力」 料因避修例 學者憂收緊標準病人感受騙》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Expert: violent behaviour should be regarded as encompassing risks of injuring people: amendment of guidelines and necessity of amending the legislation” (《專家：暴力行為須涵傷人風險 加入指引須修例》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Conditional discharge orders reviewed less frequently for psychiatric patients with a relatively low risk: social worker finds this problematic” (《搣甩有條件釋放低風險者等更久 社工斥荒謬》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: RTHK
Title: “One fifth of applications received in the past five years from psychiatric patients for review of Conditional Discharge Orders were granted | Doctor called for a balanced judgment” (《覆核有條件出院令5年僅兩成獲批　醫生稱需作平衡決定》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: HK 01
Title: “The case of Tang Kwai-sze | HKU professor believes that public interest might be a reason behind the decision to withdraw the charges while CUHK expert believes that the decision has not dispelled doubts” (《鄧桂思案｜港大教授指公眾利益或為撤控理由　中大專家憂未釋疑慮》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: The Collective
Title: “Conditional Discharge: patient worried about loss of medical autonomy as a result of voluntary admission | What are doctors, patients and scholars thinking?” (《有條件釋放｜病人自白：憂自願入院變失醫療自主　醫、患、學者想什麼?》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: The Collective
Title: “Difficult to have Conditional Discharge orders revoked | Some patient who was subject to the order for 23 years unsuccessfully applied for release while some had their appeal dismissed 4 times” (《有條件釋放令｜撤令難　最長持令 23 年申撤銷不獲批　有病人四度上訴失敗》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: The Collective
Title: “Conditional Discharge Order | Hong Kong government looking into the option of compulsorily detaining voluntarily admitted patients with a violent disposition and scholar expressing concern that the new conditions of release proposed may result in encroachment on human rights” (《港府研強制羈留自願入院者有暴力傾向人士　學者批新增釋放條件侵人權》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Authorities mull over proposal to subject voluntarily admitted patients with a violent disposition to the Conditional Discharge regime with Health Bureau hoping to change the guidelines within this year while a member of the consultation committee believes that the discussion is beside the point” (《暴力傾向自願入院者 研納有條件釋放 醫衛局冀年內修指引 有諮委會成員質疑討論失焦》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “On average those who have successfully applied for release had been subject to the order for 7.5 years | Health Bureau mulling over proposal to introduce an automatic review mechanism under which there will be a review at least once every 2 years” (《申撤釋放令獲批者 平均已遵令7.5年 醫衛局擬增自動檢視機制 最長兩年一覆核》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: HK01
Title:
“Discussion on expansion and tightening of the Conditional Discharge regime: a scholar doubted efficacy while a doctor believes that there is a positive impact on the treatment of patients” [Chinese]
(《有條件釋放｜收緊或擴闊明討論 學者質疑成效 醫生指助病人治療》)
(Clarification note: Daisy Cheung was misquoted in saying the following: “如病人未達至要強制入院或病情較輕，應考慮無條件釋放其出院”. Her view is that the current regime should not be further tightened without a holistic consideration of the rationale for the system and whether sufficient safeguards are in place. This and several other points of clarification will be included in the Jul-Aug newsletter.)

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: South China Morning Post
(Clarification note: It is stated in the news article that Daisy Cheung believes that the opinion of social workers should be considered when imposing a Conditional Discharge Order. It should be clarified that this should refer more broadly to any professional that deals with mental health, as long as s/he is not a physician, like the Approved Mental Health Professional in the UK. Further discussion on these points will be included in the Jul-Aug newsletter.)

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Radio Television Hong Kong
Programme: “Openline Openview” (“自由風自由PHONE”)
Title: “Proposal to expand the Conditional Discharge regime to cover patients who were voluntarily admitted but have a history of (criminal) violence or a disposition of criminal violence” (《有條件釋放令擬擴展至自願入院有暴力行為或刑事暴力傾向精神病人》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Hong Kong considering community treatment orders (CTO) for mental health patients: Not yet proved to be effective in other places according to scholar” (《研引社區治療令 學者：外地未見效》) [Chinese]

Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Radio Television Hong Kong
Programme: “Backchat” (31:15-42:35 of the “Rights of Critically Ill Patients” recording)

Interviewed: Gilberto Leung
Medium: Now News
Title :“Distance between medical errors and criminalisation” (《失誤與刑事的距離》) [Chinese version]

Interviewed: Minsung Kim (then CMEL’s Postdoctoral Fellow)
Medium: Time