Last weekend the Labour Party has announced the appointment of a former MP to conduct a “strategic review” of mental health ahead of the next General Election. Luciana Berger, also a former health minister with experience in campaigning on mental health, will undertake this work and I wondered at first whether this could end up […]

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An inquest in to the death of Mr Mouayed Bashir will open in Newport, Gwent on Monday 15th January 2024. Mr Bashir died in February 2021 after his family rang 999 due to a mental health crisis incident at their home address during which he barricaded himself in a room. Force was used to restrain […]

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Happy 2024 to you all! It’s now nine years since the Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 was published in England (2015) and eight years for the Code in Wales (2016).  Given the laws for policing / mental health were changed in 2017, that means we’ve had Codes of Practice MHA for […]

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