Defences to Entry

Let’s imagine you’re very worried about a relative and you go to their home after you have been unable to reach them by phone after several hours of trying and many calls. For the point I want to make in this post, it doesn’t matter whether they may be an elderly relative who is known […]

Admission Thresholds

The Mental Health Act (MHA), in many of its fundamentals, has been the same since 1959 when a new MHA received Royal Assent from a young Queen Elizabeth II. We now talk about the Mental Health Act 1983, as if a new Act of Parliament was drafted and introduced in the early ’80s and strictly […]

Nottingham Healthcare

Today, the Care Quality Commission has published a rapid review of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and it touches in its final part on the specific healthcare received by Valdo Calocane between May 2020 and September 2022. The BBC headlines it as “a series of errors” found by the CQC who, we must remember, are themselves […]