A requested post, after this week receiving several queries at work and on Twitter about nurses’ and doctors’ “holding powers” under the Mental Health Act.  Officers and patients have been asking what, if anything, various doctors and nurses can do to detain someone if they suspect a mental disorder and fear someone may come to […]

Since deciding to blog a bit less often, it has caused me to think about how I can develop this resource differently and I’ve decided to instigate something of a monthly ‘newsletter’ – which to give me a memorable deadline, I’ll publish on the 25th of the month.  The aim here, is to refer to a few […]

A person with mental health problems who may have taken an overdose walks out of A&E before conclusion of an MHA assessment and before the results of blood tests are fully known.  What do we always call for? – a safe and well check by the police, right?!  Yes.  But it’s pointless; and here’s why […]