An Approved Mental Health Professional emailed me a while ago having had a fairly frustrating day at work and they wanted to point something out which had wasted their morning. It raises an important point about the RCRP programme and information management about MHA status. It goes something like this – Police force A receives […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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