‘Policing’ mental health in London
street triage
Mental health nurses join police officers on duty
The BBC report (April 2019) that: “Police in Berkshire have stopped more than 150 mental health patients from being sectioned or detained unnecessarily in cells over the past year. Officers credit an initiative where mental health nurses join them on duty for…
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Street triage
A 999 call comes in. The man says he is ill, he’s hearing voices and wants to kill someone. Usually emergency services would be despatched and he’d probably be taken to an already overstretched accident and emergency department. But in…
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a coherent system
Our vision is of a simple system of service-based assessment and referral that doesn’t rely on an increasingly complex system of diagnostic labelling. It is a mental and emotional health care system that both removes a great deal of the…
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