Working as a police officer has forced me to be a part of some of the most unbelievable indignities I’ve ever seen and I wasn’t a willing participant in many of them – and unfortunately the worst of them have been mental health related incidents. After almost eighteen years of experience, I’ve seen and done […]

Another BLOG to reinforce points that have been made by the police for some years now: we have no legal  powers whatsoever in private premises under the Mental Health Act and we cannot force entry to someone’s private premises in order to check on their welfare, unless there are reasonable grounds to suspect that their […]

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) were introduced by the Health & Social Care Act 2012 – they are now the bodies in England which are responsible for healthcare. They are, in principle, led by GPs in the area they cover and, as the name suggests, they are responsible for ‘commissioning’ the medical care that is provided […]