Another new Preventing Future Deaths report, again focusing on systems and processes around patients who abscond from mental health units whilst detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.  Jayden Booroff died after absconding from the care of Essex mental health services in 2020 – he’d been a s2 patient on the ward and was considered very […]

Community Care is a specialist publication for those who work in social care, including Approved Mental Health Professionals.  They recently published an article covering comments made by the AMHP Leads Network, to whom I’ve been privileged to present in the past.  The article focusses on the difficulty faced by AMHPs in coordinating and completing Mental […]

The Daily Telegraph recently reported (££) one police force in the UK is to become the first to charge the NHS for police time spent in relation to ‘unnecessary’ mental health calls.  It was calculated that Bedfordshire police are spending 53,000 hours each year dealing with mental health related demands, which is roughly 23 police officers, […]