The BBC has published another article about the increase in mental health callouts for the police.  This follows similar articles in previous years and is again based on reedom of Information Act requests to police forces. The article points out there has been a rise over the five years since 2017 and if you bear […]

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Another new Preventing Future Deaths report, again focusing on systems and processes around patients who abscond from mental health units whilst detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.  Jayden Booroff died after absconding from the care of Essex mental health services in 2020 – he’d been a s2 patient on the ward and was considered very […]

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Community Care is a specialist publication for those who work in social care, including Approved Mental Health Professionals.  They recently published an article covering comments made by the AMHP Leads Network, to whom I’ve been privileged to present in the past.  The article focusses on the difficulty faced by AMHPs in coordinating and completing Mental […]

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