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Some patients benefit more from residential, in-treatment programs, while others are more suited for outpatient care.

“I've been struggling with persistent anaemia for some time, and they finally decided to figure out why, so I had some outpatient surgery last week,” she explains.

A DSH representative reiterated it was the courts that “decide if an individual designated as an SVP may be placed into outpatient treatment.”

Meanwhile, latest figures showed more than 80,100 people, whose eyes were most at risk, were waiting beyond the target time for an outpatients appointment, a new record.

So, a lot of people choose to have it done in outpatient settings.