News over the weekend suggests the Metropolitan Police has written to health partners in London, giving them 99 days for to come up with plans for the police to withdraw responses from emergency mental health calls which do not involve an immediate threat to life. It seems a meeting has a been set with a […]

Where someone is absent without leave from hospital, is it correct in law to say the NHS hospital from which they’re missing has a legal duty to locate or a legal duty to return their own patient?  This should be a simple enough question, benefiting from a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, but alas it’s not: […]

Police use of taser has come under scrutiny a number of times since I last touched on this topic because of several incidents which are or which would appear to be mental health related. We know there are investigations ongoing in to the Chelsea Bridge incident in London, and that a criminal investigation has recently […]