The latest Preventing Future Death report to mention the Right Care, Right Person programme was published at the end of May 2025, following the tragic death of Dean Bradley in the Cleveland Police area. It involved what were referred to as “missed opportunities” by the police to safeguard Mr Bradley amidst a lack of appropriate […]

My email inbox has been hit a few times in the last month with queries which revolve around the same issue: the issue of police using section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 and then handing over the person detained to the NHS and leaving within the hour.  You may recall: phase four of “Right Care, […]

The Health Secretary took himself on the weekend politics programmes and decided to tell us “mental health is over-diagnosed” as the hints about this week’s cuts to benefits was trailed. It caused quite the kerfuffle – radio phone-ins, official responses from bodies like the Royal College of Psychiatrists as well as the predictable debates on […]