<<< This is a guest blog from Ella Shaw – author of Diagnosis: LOB – who works for the ambulance service after a debate we had about the conduct of ‘safe and well’ checks for health situations.  I wondered aloud why the ambulance service don’t undertake these checks for NHS organisations when they are oriented […]

This is going to be a challenging post: in good faith and in a way that is measured, reasonable and welcome, it has been questioned whether or not this blog is reinforcing negative stereotypes of people with mental health problems.  In particular, is the blog reinforcing that mental health patients are violent and dangerous? Whilst […]

This if the first in a series of short posts which aims to bring together all the blog posts which will allow policy leads in police forces or police BCUs to set about reviewing, revising and delivering proper procedures and training on various protocols which are requierd: in this case on Places of Safefy, usually […]