Twenty Nineteen

The forthcoming year is the sixtieth birthday of the first piece of modern mental health legislation – the Mental Health Act 1959. It’s worth noting this milestone, in my opinion, because sixty years on we are still struggling to think about how we give effect in the real world to some of its requirements. Section […]

One Great Thing

I’ve just deleted about half a dozen draft blogs, none of them finished … I tried to write a few things over the last fortnight and just became interminably bored, quite honestly, for the fact that I was just saying the same thing, over and Over and OVER again. This is what I was going […]

Fifty Nine Years

I’m off to Manchester on Monday. The Care Quality Commission are pulling together an event to look at the widely ignored provisions contained within section 140 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Actually, it’s not so much ignored, as not known about – over a number of years, I’ve often dashed off the occasional Freedom […]