I noticed a hashtag on Twitter last night that made me feel quite anxious but also intrigued – #CrisisTeamFail.  Whether or not you’ve signed up to Twitter, you can still go on it and see the content.  In short, various patients were tweeting their experiences of contacting mental health crisis teams and noting the replies […]

The Crisis Care Concordat is ensuring that a lot of discussions occur about the interface between the police and our mental health system, amongst other things.  We are quite predictably hearing a lot of the standard lines about “joint working”, “partnerships”, and cutting across silos and so on and so on.  It’s the lingua franca […]

The Crisis Care Concordat has it’s National Summit in London next week – a gathering of all the signatory agencies in order to mark progress ahead of the first big deadline.  For those who follow me on Twitter, you’ll notice that I keep uploading a developing map of England, shaded in various colours, like this […]