Perhaps it’s the dismal weather we’ve had recently, perhaps it’s the shortening days. Whatever the reason, I’ve been thinking quite a...

You can read the fascinating things The Masked AMHP has to say to the Guardian about himself and his blog here.

Over the years, I have frequently found myself in a position where I have had to assess someone under the Mental Health Act where their p...

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...