Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Z [2016] EWCOP 56

The Patient, aged 46, had suffered from extremely severe and chronic anorexia nervosa since the age of 15. The court had to decide on the extent of her treatment in the knowledge that if she was not detained and force-fed then she was in danger of dying. The decision was made to discharge the Patient from detention under the Mental Health Act to her parents home.

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