Martin Waite

There were “missed chances, confusion and errors” in the care of a Huddersfield dad who took his own life, according to His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Huddersfield, Mr Martin Fleming who also described organisations’ responses to Martin Waite leaving an Emergency Department as “lamentable”. Mr Waite had a history of mental health problems and was under […]

Domestic Homicide Reviews

Many years ago when I was working at a police headquarters on mental health policy, a friend of mine who was a detective sergeant in the Public Protection Unit had been doing some work on a sample of the force’s domestic homicide reviews from the previous couple of years. He spotted two stats he thought […]

One Hour Handovers

Those forces busy introducing the Right Care, Right Person programme have mostly introduced phases one and two of four. This means they’re addressing phases (1) welfare checks and (2) hospital walkouts, including AWOL patients. Phase (3) looks at conveyance (of Mental Health Act patients) and (4) looks at section 136 MHA. More specifically, phase (4) looks […]