Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017

Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction - Rights of patients - Rights applicable to all patients

59: Right to receive visitors and make and receive telephone calls

You could also call this:

"You can have visitors and make phone calls when you're a patient, at fair and reasonable times."

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You have the right to see visitors and make phone calls when you are a patient, at times that are fair and reasonable. You can get visits and make calls, unless a doctor thinks it would hurt you or your treatment. The doctor gets to decide what is reasonable and what might hurt you.

You still have the same rights as you do in section 56 and section 57, and this rule does not change those. These sections still apply to you, even when you are getting visits or making phone calls. The rules in these sections work together with the rules about visits and phone calls.

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Part 2Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction
Rights of patients: Rights applicable to all patients

59Right to receive visitors and make and receive telephone calls

  1. Every patient is entitled, at reasonable times and at reasonable intervals, to receive visitors and make and receive telephone calls, except if, in the opinion of the responsible clinician, a visit or call would be detrimental to the interests of the patient or to his or her treatment.

  2. Nothing in this section limits or affects anything in section 56 or 57.