Do you fancy some light reading for the weekend? – I have a little 944 page report for you, that should keep you out of trouble and give you a load of excuses for procrastination or avoidance of domestic chores! Scotland has produced the first significant review of Mental Health and Capacity law for around […]

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Link to last night’s BBC Panorama which features undercover journalism from a medium secure mental health unit in Greater Manchester.  You can also read more on the BBC website and since its broadcast, a local MP has called for an independent inquiry. Although different in important regards, it will have inevitable reminders for some of […]

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There are some new documents worth noting on the subject of Acute Behavioural Disturbance — You will find a number of posts on this topic across the history of the blog (open the site menu, top right corner, for a search function if you wish to look them up using that search term of ‘ABD’). […]

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