Records and Risk Assessment

For a number of years now, emphasis has been separately placed on a couple of issues I would like to slam together and think about: police consultation with mental health services & mental health services’ risk assessments. You will remember, in 2017, the law was changed on the operation of section 136 Mental Health Act […]

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 […]