The Mental Health Bill 2025, introduced to the House of Lords last autumn, has now completed its passage through the House of Commons, having had its third reading earlier this week.  It now returns to the House of Lords for some final “ping-pong” so it’s not quite over yet. I’ve always been focussing on the […]

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Channel 4’s Dispatches programme aired an episode on Monday evening about problems within the ambulance service having placed a journalist to work undercover as a 999 call handler in the south of England. The programme is generally worth watching: I think we learned some things about how matters are managed we didn’t know before, but […]

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The BBC journalist writing the article I’m about to discuss, hasn’t done the best job of explaining what exactly they are referring to.  “CQC says Kent patients ‘detained beyond time limit’ permitted by law” could mean any number of things.  Mental health trusts detain patients under a large number of provisions of the Mental Health […]

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