/ October 13, 2018 at 9:05 AM
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This one’s longer than normal – sorry! Thoughts just kept coming, so it’s probably best you put the kettle on first and ensure you have more than a few minutes! And treat yourself to a biscuit – non-chocolate hob nobs…
/ October 9, 2018 at 1:45 PM
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/ October 8, 2018 at 7:09 PM
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For some while, it has been suggested that the police service need to define what they mean by an incident being ‘mental health related’. You know those claims you’ve heard may times about how X percent of police demand or…
/ October 5, 2018 at 6:43 PM
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Today the College of Paramedics produced their position statement on Acute Behavioural Disturbance and it adds weigh to those tomes I’ve previously pushed as authorities or resources on the subject. ABD continues to be a subject of debate, arising recently…
/ September 27, 2018 at 12:58 PM
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Have you ever been given a piece of work to do or faced some decision in your life where no matter what you do, you’ll be criticised? More than that: the vast majority of people will look at your decision…
/ September 23, 2018 at 7:06 AM
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We don’t have enough inpatient mental health beds in this country – but I might very be wrong about this, though. It is my opinion, though, that when we take account of the capacity and capability of the community, crisis…
/ September 22, 2018 at 8:25 AM
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I haven’t blogged for almost two months! Various reasons – busy, on holiday, bored of saying the same thing over and over again … there are a few in the pipeline but I decided to put them all to one…
/ June 28, 2018 at 8:18 AM
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We are hearing stories on social media at the moment, of patients who claim they were told to ‘call the police’ when they have contacted their community or crisis team for support as they recognise they are becoming unwell or…
/ June 17, 2018 at 3:31 PM
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Look back to when I joined the police are you’ll see that crime levels, measured either by police recorded crime or by the British Crime Survey, were much higher – but if you look at statistics on use of s136…
/ April 6, 2018 at 8:59 PM
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It was being asked again last night, in the AMHP social media world as to whether Britain had run out of inpatient psychiatric beds. Obviously a difficult night to go out AMHPing, at least in some parts of the country.…
/ March 1, 2018 at 3:44 PM
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/ January 27, 2018 at 3:22 PM
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You’ll remember I’ve been banging on for a number of years now about the problem of people being in police custody for many hours or even for many days, waiting for Mental Health Act assessment, or more usually waiting for…
/ January 4, 2018 at 7:49 PM
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You guys seemed to use the BLOG a lot last year, way more than any other single year since I started in 2011 and that was really encouraging on one level. However, I couldn’t help but notice the vast majority…
/ December 14, 2017 at 8:19 PM
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Norman Lamb MP wrote to his local police force recently, asking about those kinds of cases I’ve been banging on for years now: people being held in custody for hours and hours, if not days and days, following their arrest…
/ December 1, 2016 at 10:47 AM
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We have been approached by a journalist who would like to find people willing to speak out about their recent experience of abuse by a therapist for a potential documentary or news item on dangerous therapy. Contributors can remain anonymous. Please…
/ November 17, 2016 at 10:31 AM
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/ October 25, 2016 at 9:10 PM
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I heard the Health Secretary Jeremy HUNT deliver a speech at today’s Crisis Care Concordat Summit in London, the first major speech he’s delivered on mental health, we were told. Almost the first thing he did was praise the police…
/ October 21, 2016 at 7:03 PM
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It seems that it’s been the week for Scottish mental health patients to journey to England, in a variety of legal situations that have subsequently confused the life out of police and mental health professionals alike. So we had the…
/ October 19, 2016 at 6:50 PM
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We hear this word ‘Beds’ a lot when we hear discussion of mental health services and it can get very confusing because the word is used to mean different things, not all of them literal. It happened earlier today during…
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