Nottingham Update No 1

Following the dreadful, terrible killings and attacks in Nottingham last year, a series of reviews was announced after the sentencing of Valdo Calocane. There are many reviews ongoing in to policing and healthcare as well as prosecution and court decisions — the first of them has reported today, March 25th. His Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service […]

The Science of the Gaps

The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom recently published an article about Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD) and also referencing Excited Delirium, which may or may not be the same thing – we might get on to that in a moment. The article “reveals” what anyone reading this blog will have known for over a decade: […]

Duty of Candour: Fail

A new Preventing Future Deaths report has caused me some consternation, I’ll be honest. Issued by His Majesty’s Inner West London, the PFD notice follows the death of Roberto Bettello in September 2020 after he was detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and removed to an Emergency Department as a Place […]