A new Preventing Future Deaths report has been issued already this year, concerning the subject of returning patients to hospital who are absent without leave under the Mental Health Act.  It follows the sad case of Jack TAYLOR in Sussex who had been a s3 MHA patient in a local psychiatric unit and absconded during […]

New coverage in the Independent today of statistics on the Mental Health Act.  They went with the a headline from a service user exprience where Kelly stated “You lose your human rights” (ie, when you’re sectioned under the Act and compelled to hospital.)  Hers sounded like a very difficult experience, involving male nurses, coercion and […]

Last week saw release of the Strategic Review of Policing, published by the Police Foundation, having been chaired over the last year or more by Sir Michael Barber.  It was heavily trailed a few weeks back, but the full document not released until recently.  One hundred and ninety six (196!) pages long, it touches on […]