The Mental Health Act (MHA), in many of its fundamentals, has been the same since 1959 when a new MHA received Royal Assent from a young Queen Elizabeth II. We now talk about the Mental Health Act 1983, as if a new Act of Parliament was drafted and introduced in the early ’80s and strictly […]

Today, the Care Quality Commission has published a rapid review of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and it touches in its final part on the specific healthcare received by Valdo Calocane between May 2020 and September 2022.  The BBC headlines it as “a series of errors” found by the CQC who, we must remember, are themselves […]

Tonight – Monday 12th August – BBC Panorama will be airing a special episode on the 2023 tragedies in Nottingham, involving Valdo Calocane who was sentenced earlier this year to a restricted hospital order, from which he may never be released. There are a number of ongoing inquiries and reviews subsequent to the disasters which […]