John Hurst

In October, His Majesty’s Coroner for Sunderland issued a Preventing Future Deaths (PFD) report after the inquest of Mr John Hurst. It concerns mental health assessment in police custody, information sharing between the NHS and the police and, crucially, pre-release risk assessment by custody officers. Unfortunately, none of this is anything we haven’t heard before […]

Make It Make Sense!

I had a meeting this week at a conference about healthcare security and took the opportunity to whilst there to hear an input about Right Care, Right Person – it’s important to stay up to date. The healthcare security audience were mostly aware of the programme and working alongside police forces who had introduced it, […]

NHS England Guidance

New guidance from NHS England was published last week and it’s taken me some time to read it all – there’s the first issue: it is ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE, totalling over 26,000 words! I’m afraid it’s one of those documents which is so massive, it might be considered by some to be somewhat impenetrable and even […]