You may be aware the Mental Health Bill is making it’s way through the Committee Stage of the House of Lords, having been introduced at the end of last year. This allows members of the Lords to table amendments for consideration later.  A number of amendments have been tabled and this post is specifically about […]

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A new Preventing Future Deaths report from a London coroner after a mentally ill man from Leicestershire unexpectedly travelled to the capital and had contact with the NHS and the police before somehow entering the Thames and being found deceased. It’s a very sad case of considerable state and agency contact and it drew my […]

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The death of Sebastian Oliver, known as ‘Benji’ in Birmingham in November 2023 was an accidental death following significant blood loss and hypothermia after an injury to his left hand whilst under the influence of drugs, according to His Majesty’s Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull. There was significant emergency services contact prior to his death […]

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