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 […]

Inside the Wessely Review

Right! – legal eagles may be keen to know the summary of what’s inside the Wessely Review of the Mental Health Act. Standard caveats apply: this is not the whole thing, it’s written mainly for the police / paramedics towards whom this blog tends to be addressed. I’ve tried to touch just on those areas […]

A Collision of Coincidences

Do you remember where you were on 23rd December 2016? Were you one of the other nine people with me, somewhere around 9pm at a house in the West Midlands, present at or dealing with a healthcare incident that had been reported to 999? Chances are you weren’t – this probably means you don’t have […]