I pen this BLOG post on behalf of AMHPs in England and Wales! – they seem a touch ground down by the Old Bill and I offered to write this as I am rather bored in a London hotel room whilst working down here for a couple of days. I logged on to the Masked […]

The discussion about street triage continues and I’ve deliberately stayed clear of much of it, acutely conscious as I am that my views on the whole thing usually go down like a lead balloon just after they’ve been misunderstood or even misrepresented. This BLOG is my evidence that I’ve always been a massive fan of […]

This week I spent some time in Northern Ireland, a place I’d never been before. The visit was part of the Royal College of Psychiatrists independent commission on acute adult psychiatric care and it gave me an opportunity to visit mental health services in Antrim before a dash into Belfast city centre for the commission’s […]