A short, very functional post to announce I’ve set up ‘MentalHealthCop’ social media feeds on Facebook, Instagram and Threads for this blog – It’s just another way people can follow the content put out on the blog although people can still subscribe to receive an email each time there is a new post, if they […]

I’ve avoided this one like the plague! … but it came at me recently, so I thought I can’t dodge it any more!  The interface between the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Thankfully for the sake of my head, a lot of this discussion about the interface between the two […]

It literally doesn’t mean anything to say somebody “has capacity” – or they “lack capacity”, for that matter. It didn’t mean anything when I started writing this blog and it doesn’t really mean anything now.  You may have gathered, it makes me want to scream every time I hear it because I’ve done quite a […]