Nottingham Update No 2

Today sees publication of the review in to the mental healthcare delivered to Valdo Calocane, the man who responsible for three killings and three attempted killings in Nottingham in July 2023. We saw the headlines and summary from the BBC News article as this report was supplied in full to UK media on Tuesday after […]

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 […]