This week, the Metropolitan Police will commence its implementation Right Care, Right Person programme.  You may recall from May of this year, it was reported the Commissioner had written to his healthcare partners in the capital to tell them this change in approach would take effect from September.  After various responses from healthcare organisations, medical […]

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Channel Four News has used Freedom of Information laws to obtain data from Emergency Departments about delays for mental health patients.  Their report from this week (25th October, broadcast on their 7pm news programme) highlights than mental health patients are waiting days, if not weeks in the emergency department, “guarded by hospital security” and often […]

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This post involves a number of hyperlinks to the website of Guardian Australia – you may need to register to be able to access them, but it is entirely free to do so. “As useless as udders on a bull”. This is the way the current “system” was described by Neil Wilkins, whose stepson Todd […]

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