No Evaluation

We need more honesty about where we are with Right Care, Right Person. Not least because this is yet another major programme in policing and mental health which is proceeding to be rolled out, entirely unevaluated. We had street triage, we had Liaison and Diversion and then the High Intensity stuff – none of it […]

Assaulting Nurses

Only this week, I was emailed by a mental health nurse asking for advice about an assault which took place on the ward where she works. The relevant aspect of her question for us today is the police responded to the assault being reported by saying there was nothing they could do “because he’s on […]

Rudakubana’s Care

None of us can have watched last year’s unfolding events in Southport without horror and revulsion: just unfathomable, even in the worst nightmares, to think someone could invade a little girls’ dance event in the summer holidays and slaughter three girls whilst attempting to kill and harm as many people as possible. The staff there, […]