Help! – first blog I’ve written asking for help, so any will be gratefully taken, either in comments below or in emails to mentalhealthcop@live.co.uk.  I will write a blog summarising the feedback, if I get enough responses, especially from the lawyers because I’ve spoken to lots of AMHPs. SCENARIO Imagine a person under arrest for […]

I came across a New Statesman article by Alan White a few weeks ago.  It sought to address certain problems around society’s response to complex and demanding characters and it contained this: “There’s a doctor – my friend – and he works on an A&E ward somewhere in the north of England. One night a […]

The NHS publish figures each year about the use of the Mental Health Act 1983.  Apart from sounding the standard warnings about official statistics, they are worthy of further analysis as they suggest a rise in the use of s136 Mental Health Act of around 135% over the last six years.  This blog post arises […]