Nottingham Update No 2

Today sees publication of the review in to the mental healthcare delivered to Valdo Calocane, the man who responsible for three killings and three attempted killings in Nottingham in July 2023. We saw the headlines and summary from the BBC News article as this report was supplied in full to UK media on Tuesday after […]

Attention to Details

Worth reflecting on a few issues to do with the return, recall or revocation of those patients who are absent without leave (AWOL) or liable to be detained, under the Mental Health Act 1983. I’ve had a number of queries, questions and quandaries in that last few weeks so I thought a post on it […]

Risk Assessment

I’m all too wary of newspaper coverage of cases which have appeared in courtrooms. Having been directly involved in enough cases to know that coverage is necessarily partial, it often misses things which can be important to understanding what has occurred. In fairness to newspapers, they have a few hundred words to summarise hearings whose […]