Imagine a patient taken to A&E by ambulance after taking an overdose who is then admitted to the poison’s unit of the acute, general hospital. A mental health assessment is requested as routine, because of the overdose, but is scheduled to take place tomorrow once the patient is anticipated to be medically well enough to […]

When I woke up this morning, I was greated with a familiar message on Twitter from a duty inspector: “We have a male who has been sectioned under 2 MHA but they say there’s no bed.  He’s been here all night and no word of any bed today.  Can they do this and just expect […]

This BLOG post is a direct response to a piece that appeared in the Guardian, entitled Tasers have no place in mental health care by Matilda MacATTRAM, Director of Black Mental Health UK. Before going further, I’d encourage you to read the whole piece for yourself. The debate in the House of Commons did include […]