Most mental health service users will be completely unaware that when they are assessed by Community Mental Health Teams or in hospital...

  Part 5 of an occasional series about my early years as a social worker in the 1970’s. Within a few months of starting as an un...

There is a whole chapter in the Mental Health Act Code of Practice on the conveyance of patients to hospital. Two of the particularly cog...

Case Law relating specifically to the discharge of AMHP’s powers under the MHA is fairly rare. I don’t know whether this is because AMH...

How do social workers recognise and maintain the core social work tasks in a multidisciplinary team? The Masked AMHP shares the advice he...

I even made my own cake! This is the Masked AMHP’s 100 th post! When I created this blog back in March 2009, I had no idea whether...

Approved Mental Health Professionals can work in a wide variety of settings, ranging from community mental health teams, through to old...