Yesterday saw the publication of the 2012/13 report by the Care Quality Commission on the Monitoring the Mental Health Act.  Here are just some headlines for you – The MHA was applied over 50,000 times for the first time in history. The number of people subject to the frameworks of the MHA is up 12% […]

In 2010 our leading mental health charity, Mind, published a guide on policing and mental health.  It was a widely disseminated, well received document that highlighted issues for the public and for police officers in complex area of work. So much has happened in the intervening few years, that it has been revised during the […]

NB: Since publication of this post, the law has changed and Clinical Commissioning Groups have been replaced by Integrated Care Boards – it’s not just a change of terminology but for our purposes here, it amounts to that.  It doesn’t change the substantive points being made about the legal duties now owed by ICBs under […]