title: A survey of sentenced prisoners transferred to hospital for urgent psychiatric treatment over a three-year period in one region.
abstract: This study describes a survey of sentenced prisoners who were transferred to psychiatric hospitals in South Wales under 8.47 of the Mental Health Act of 1983 (England & Wales) over a three-year period. During this time there were 29 such transfers of 25 prisoners and all were male. Fifty per cent of these prisoners who became patients had a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia, 13 per cent of recurrent depressive disorder, 4 per cent of a drug-induced psychosis, 4 per cent of hypomania and 6.6 per cent had some form of personality disorder. Forty-four per cent were returned to prison to complete their sentence once their mental disorder was treated.
authors.affiliation: South Wales Forensic Psychiatric Service, Caswell Clinic, Bridgend, Mid-Glamorgan.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Huckle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010359:Patient Readmission; D010360:Patient Transfer; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014852:Wales