The following are locations or initiatives places where you can now find mental health nurses working on crisis care alongside other professionals from outside the mental health care system — Police partnered triage schemes Ambulance partnered triage schemes Police control rooms Ambulance control rooms Police custody – in liaison and diversion programmes Accident & Emergency […]

I’m sure if Chief Constables had endless resources, some of them would be deployed routinely to places where we currently see them occasionally patrolling and more often reacting.  If I was uncommitted, operationally, I often used to park outside A&E and go for a wander around, especially late in the evning or early hours when […]

I freely admit that I had never heard of a ‘psychiatric FME’ (Force Medical Examiner) until a few months ago and it’s not a concept I’d ever heard of in any police force around the country.  Of course, psychiatrists and other doctors with specific experience and qualifications in managing patients with mental health problems do […]