Ipswich Crown Court is currently hearing a case where two mental health nurses are subject to a rare prosecution under s127 of the Mental Health Act 1983. This section creates an offence of ‘wilful neglect’ of a mental health patient in hopsital.  It doesn’t just relate to inpatients or to patients who are formally detained […]

We’re now at the point where NHS staff on social media are openly reporting their local police as saying things like, “We don’t do mental health” amidst the continuing narrative the police are not the right agency to help those of us who need mental health support.  Of course, the police are not mental health […]

Last week, journalist Emily Townsend from the Health Services Journal published an article (£) about a letter from the national director of mental health for NHS England, Claire Murdoch.  She has written to senior NHS figures about the Right Care, Right Person programme which is being rolled out nationally and which was announced formally in […]