Where an Approved Mental Health Professional has completed a Mental Health Act assessment and decided to ‘section’ a patient, it’s not uncommon to encounter difficulty identifying an available psychiatric bed.  This is an understatement, to be fair – in my more recent experience, it’s rare to find a bed is available in less than “several […]

The Home Office has today published the latest data on various police powers, which includes use of s136 Mental Health Act 1983.  You can access the full data for yourself, but for the purpose of making a few headline points about what I’ve just read, I’ve highlighted a few forces below and covered certain aspects […]

The world is supplying an awful lot of material on the topics covered on this website and I’m genuinely struggling to keep up!  There are a few burning stories at the moment which I’ve decided to just ignore for now because I don’t have the time to cover them or do the reading or research […]