Updates

By Alex Gearin
Medium: Oriental Daily News
Title: “Will psychedelic treatments become legitimate mental health therapies?” (《醫健寶庫：迷幻藥物治療會否成合法精神健康治療？》)  [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: Zohar Lederman
Medium: Podcast

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]

By Zohar Lederman
Medium: Oriental Daily News
Title: “Living together through lonely times” (《醫健寶庫：共度孤獨時光》)  [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)

By Carl Hildebrand
Medium: Times Higher Education

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

Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: South China Morning Post

Title in Chinese: 《醫專港大研討醫療誤殺 醫生：未釋業界刑責疑慮》
Medium: Ming Pao
Seminar event page: click here

Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Radio Television Hong Kong
Programme: Blackchat (11:38-15:40 and 22:39-24:20 of the “Part 1” recording)

Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: South China Morning Post