In light of the recent announcement by the Metropolitan Police about declining to attend emergency mental health calls unless there is an ‘immediate risk to life’ (IRTL), I thought a post on this topic would be helpful, because simple though the phrase sounds, it’s been subject to consideration in the UK’s highest court and probably […]

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News over the weekend suggests the Metropolitan Police has written to health partners in London, giving them 99 days for to come up with plans for the police to withdraw responses from emergency mental health calls which do not involve an immediate threat to life. It seems a meeting has a been set with a […]

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Where someone is absent without leave from hospital, is it correct in law to say the NHS hospital from which they’re missing has a legal duty to locate or a legal duty to return their own patient?  This should be a simple enough question, benefiting from a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, but alas it’s not: […]

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