I want to wade in to a debate which recently unfolded before Parliament about nursing training – and specifically about the training of mental health nurses and their experience or competence in physical healthcare.  You might reasonably wonder why I’m interested in some recent events on this topic and what this has to do with […]

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley has penned an article in this morning’s Sunday Times, entitled – “Police exist to protect the public, we are not social workers.” The “social work” trope in policing is the laziest of them all.  I’ve always argued in the past it merely shows the person deploying […]

A few weeks ago, a jury at the Old Bailey returned guilty verdicts against a mental health nurse ward manager, Benjamin Aninakwa, and the North-East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) – they were convicted of health & safety offences after the suicide of Alice Figueiredo on a trust ward in 2015. The were originally prosecuted […]