A week in which we’re hearing a lot about stress, depression and anxiety in policing: firstly, a national broadsheet telling us the financial cost of almost 800 officers being off sick during a snapshot survey recently undertaken. (The true figure will be higher as only 35 of 43 police forces responded – the Telegraph speculated […]

Imagine the scenario — A person is detained by the police under the Mental Health Act and removed to an Accident & Emergency department because of injury or illness that prevents them being taken anywhere else. Following assessment of that condition in A&E it is decided that they need to be admitted to the acute […]

I went to a job today where a man had been seriously injured in a car crash.  He was trapped in the vehicle and his leg was partially crushed, preventing him from being easily removed.  We could tell he was bleeding and in a lot of pain and after the provision of some reassurance and […]