I continue to be troubled by the concept of advance decisions to refuse treatment being used to prevent lifesaving treatment for the cons...

I’ve been reading the late Oliver Sacks’ excellent book Hallucinations. Not surprisingly, in view of the book’s title, it consists of a w...

The Government arranged for a review of the current Mental Health Act back in October 2017. The review’s terms of reference were “to...

AMHPs of the future? Working as I do in an AMHP hub, where part of my job is triaging requests for assessments under the Mental Health ...

S.7, guardianship, is not the most extensively used of sections in the Mental Health Act. Indeed, as you can see from the NHS Digital ...