Mental Health Assessments

To see any of the other Paramedic Series blogs, refer to the index: There are three kinds of ‘assessments’ that are referred to when people get into the parlance about mental health and it is important that police officers and paramedics understand the three and how they connect: Mental health assessment – this is an […]

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Casual Stigma

I was a bit early to collect my son from school today so I sat in the car listening to BBC Radio Five Live – my preferred radio channel.  Richard Bacon was interviewing the actor / singer John BARROWMAN and his sister, Professor Carol BARROWMAN and the subject came up of accents.  These guys were […]

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Elephants In The Room

I predict that in a decade or more, we will still know Nicola’s Edgington’s name.  I really fear, as with many of these cases, that the public will have forgotten Sally Hodkin’s name and that it will be her family who keep her memory alive, forever consumed with regret that it was their wife, their mother […]

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