Many times over the last twenty-odd years I’ve heard it said that police officers, when it comes to risk management of mental health, are “risk averse“.  For example, faced with someone who has expressed suicidal ideas, it has been known for feedback to be officers are sometimes too quick and too keen to resort to […]

You can read my substantive tribute to AMHPs who go AMHPing in my 2017 post which attempts to explain their role from an outsider’s point of view.  Whenever I mention Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) for the first time in a new blog post, I give this link so people can read about the role […]

I’m not yet aware of any case involving the Right Care, Right Person programme coming under scrutiny in His Majesty’s Coroner’s Courts but we do know it has featured as a background discussion in at least three deaths that I am aware of. We saw an inquest in London after the death of Heather Findlay […]