Channel Four News has used Freedom of Information laws to obtain data from Emergency Departments about delays for mental health patients.  Their report from this week (25th October, broadcast on their 7pm news programme) highlights than mental health patients are waiting days, if not weeks in the emergency department, “guarded by hospital security” and often […]

This post involves a number of hyperlinks to the website of Guardian Australia – you may need to register to be able to access them, but it is entirely free to do so. “As useless as udders on a bull”. This is the way the current “system” was described by Neil Wilkins, whose stepson Todd […]

Over 20yrs ago, a defendant was convicted of an offence under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, after sending a number of unusual, almost-incoherent and rambling letters to an MP which also contained threats that were disconcerting to say the least.  The MP had to make adjustments to their professional and personal life in order […]