If we look around the world at policing and mental health issues, it doesn’t matter whether we are looking at the incident-specific tragedies we read about or the wider issues raised by taking a broader overview: we only ever hear of two solutions in response to whatever we think problem is — Training – the […]

In December, I spent a very enjoyable afternoon absorbed in reading the detail of a twenty-odd page judgment from a Coroner’s Court. It followed a situation where a man walked out of an ED Department and ended his life on a railway line not too far away from the hospital. The Coroner had no concerns […]

Update: since writing this post, the Bill has become and Act and it is thought commencement will occur in December 2017. I have written an in-depth series of posts on these matters, for more in depth thoughts about what this will all mean. This year, the Mental Health Act 1983 will change. It will be […]