What a way to start 2013! – it took eleven and a half months to win an award in 2012, but only eleven and a half hours for the blog to win its first award this year – a #TWIMAward from The World of Mentalists. This blog provides overviews and insights into the whole range […]

Many reports of patients “going AWOL” are actually better described as patients “becoming AWOL” because they have failed to return from leave.  A legal condition of being AWOL occurs in various circumstances and not just in relation to patients who suddenly decide to leave a mental health unit without permission.  Often, it is because they […]

How can it be the case that someone who committed offences whilst detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act can be imprisoned? Does this not mean that ‘the system’ has failed to take account of mental disorder as a causal or coincidental factor in his sentencing? If we know that prisons are already occupied […]