If you are a big NHS or LA
& have responsibility for & r interested in the dysfunction un ur local Mental Health Care Pathway - see I can do the lingo.
Go spend sometime with ur #AMHPs
Go with them, to ur local ED/A&E & PoS. Go with them to ur local custody block & see>

Go spend sometime with ur #AMHPs
Go with them, to ur local ED/A&E & PoS. Go with them to ur local custody block & see>
>the reality of how this stuff is & feels. Go with them to a MHAA in the community & watch then trying to get a S.12 medic or two. Watch them wait for an Ambo to convey or for the NHS to identify the near mythical bed.>
>Go with them on the return trip to a MHAA in P4PP - 100s of miles away & bloody wonder how it has come to this & how u are actually paying for it. Go to ur local Bed Managers office & count the number of peeps waiting for a bed or placed out of area.>
>Watch an #AMHP attempting to get & then actually execute a S.135(1) warrant & wonder about what multi agency partnership working actually looks like.
Better still, talk to the families & peeps on the receiving end of this stuff.
& then go read the MHA & the Code of Practice>
Better still, talk to the families & peeps on the receiving end of this stuff.
& then go read the MHA & the Code of Practice>