Em
@drem79.bsky.social
Mental health. Running. | Award winning speaker, writer and advisor on lived experience of mental illness. | Patient rep RCPsych | Published in BMJ, BJPsych, Bulletin, EMJ, Lancet | Day job is elsewhere.
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One participant described their first section:
"I was taken to hospital in a black van by three people not wearing uniforms. I thought I had been kidnapped."
This study centres lived experience to show what needs to change in mental health services.
Read the blog: buff.ly/AhjXQr8
"I was taken to hospital in a black van by three people not wearing uniforms. I thought I had been kidnapped."
This study centres lived experience to show what needs to change in mental health services.
Read the blog: buff.ly/AhjXQr8
December 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
One participant described their first section:
"I was taken to hospital in a black van by three people not wearing uniforms. I thought I had been kidnapped."
This study centres lived experience to show what needs to change in mental health services.
Read the blog: buff.ly/AhjXQr8
"I was taken to hospital in a black van by three people not wearing uniforms. I thought I had been kidnapped."
This study centres lived experience to show what needs to change in mental health services.
Read the blog: buff.ly/AhjXQr8
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Nurse and support worker charged with ill-treatment of patients detained a medium-secure mental health unit -
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mental health unit care workers charged after BBC Panorama probe
Two care workers are charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit in 2022.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Nurse and support worker charged with ill-treatment of patients detained a medium-secure mental health unit -
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New paper by @bethlgriffin.bsky.social, the 2nd from her PhD is available online today!
This paper explores the impact of restrictive practices on psychological safety from the perspective of former patients.
The open access paper can be viewed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This paper explores the impact of restrictive practices on psychological safety from the perspective of former patients.
The open access paper can be viewed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Exploring How the Psychological Safety of Patients Is Impacted by Restrictive Practices in Inpatient Mental Healthcare: A Qualitative Study
Restrictive practices are used to contain risk and maintain physical safety on inpatient mental health wards, but have been shown to negatively impact patient well-being and trust. Researchers and pr...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New paper by @bethlgriffin.bsky.social, the 2nd from her PhD is available online today!
This paper explores the impact of restrictive practices on psychological safety from the perspective of former patients.
The open access paper can be viewed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This paper explores the impact of restrictive practices on psychological safety from the perspective of former patients.
The open access paper can be viewed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hospital appointment today for ongoing physical effects from OCD. From an injury that was almost ten years ago. I’ve had some physical healthcare but not help for OCD.
I’ve had zero therapy for OCD. I’ve been waiting for NHS treatment for over 6 years. It’s no closer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’ve had zero therapy for OCD. I’ve been waiting for NHS treatment for over 6 years. It’s no closer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years
More 16-24 year olds in England say they have symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder - BBC analysis finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Hospital appointment today for ongoing physical effects from OCD. From an injury that was almost ten years ago. I’ve had some physical healthcare but not help for OCD.
I’ve had zero therapy for OCD. I’ve been waiting for NHS treatment for over 6 years. It’s no closer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’ve had zero therapy for OCD. I’ve been waiting for NHS treatment for over 6 years. It’s no closer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NEW BLOG - "Make Sure & Always Respond"
Some reflections on this week's @c4dispatches.bsky.social , esp on the PR response by NPCC to the programme.
mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/m...
Some reflections on this week's @c4dispatches.bsky.social , esp on the PR response by NPCC to the programme.
mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/m...
Make Sure & Always Respond
Channel 4’s Dispatches programme aired an episode on Monday evening about problems within the ambulance service having placed a journalist to work undercover as a 999 call handler in a service in t…
mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
NEW BLOG - "Make Sure & Always Respond"
Some reflections on this week's @c4dispatches.bsky.social , esp on the PR response by NPCC to the programme.
mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/m...
Some reflections on this week's @c4dispatches.bsky.social , esp on the PR response by NPCC to the programme.
mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/m...
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“I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)”
August 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
“I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)”
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Another new Preventing Future Death report, citing "Right Care, Right Person" -
• 16 inquests, 6 more pending
• 14 PFDs, 13 offering crucial or insight we need to pay attention to.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
• 16 inquests, 6 more pending
• 14 PFDs, 13 offering crucial or insight we need to pay attention to.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
Peter Ramsden: Prevention of Future Deaths Report - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Date of report: 08/07/2025 Ref: 2025-0347 Deceased name: Peter Ramsden Coroners name: Paul Marks Coroners Area: City of Kingston Upon Hull and the County of the East Riding of Yorkshire Category:...
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July 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Another new Preventing Future Death report, citing "Right Care, Right Person" -
• 16 inquests, 6 more pending
• 14 PFDs, 13 offering crucial or insight we need to pay attention to.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
• 16 inquests, 6 more pending
• 14 PFDs, 13 offering crucial or insight we need to pay attention to.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
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New paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Iatrogenic injustice: an institutional ethnography of Fitness to Practise hearings
The public has an important role to play in the regulation of health and social care, including raising concerns about harms caused by health and soci…
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June 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
New paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@debcoles13.bsky.social could you follow me so I can message you?
June 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
@debcoles13.bsky.social could you follow me so I can message you?
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In a historic trial, a London NHS Trust and the former ward manager have today been found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act, following the death of 22 year old Alice Figueiredo in one of its hospitals in 2015.
Alice Figueiredo: historic trial finds an NHS Trust and a former ward manager guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act
9 June 2025
www.inquest.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In a historic trial, a London NHS Trust and the former ward manager have today been found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act, following the death of 22 year old Alice Figueiredo in one of its hospitals in 2015.
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A tragic case that seems to illustrate the dangers of a simplistic understanding of the police role. Even when there's no crime or danger to others, police may have needed authority that other responders don't ("the mental health crisis team do not have the power to enter locked premises...").
Yet another new PREVENTING FUTURE DEATHS report related to “Right Care, Right Person” —
NPCC and the College of Policing might have to start accepting there are some entirely predicted problems here with #RCRP.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
NPCC and the College of Policing might have to start accepting there are some entirely predicted problems here with #RCRP.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
Sophie Cotton: Prevention of Future Deaths Report - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Date of report: 27/05/2025 Ref: 2025-0246 Deceased name: Sophie Cotton Coroners name: Rebecca Sutton Coroners Area: Durham and Darlington Category: Police related deaths | Suicide (from 2015) | M...
www.judiciary.uk
June 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A tragic case that seems to illustrate the dangers of a simplistic understanding of the police role. Even when there's no crime or danger to others, police may have needed authority that other responders don't ("the mental health crisis team do not have the power to enter locked premises...").
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Yet another new PREVENTING FUTURE DEATHS report related to “Right Care, Right Person” —
NPCC and the College of Policing might have to start accepting there are some entirely predicted problems here with #RCRP.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
NPCC and the College of Policing might have to start accepting there are some entirely predicted problems here with #RCRP.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
Sophie Cotton: Prevention of Future Deaths Report - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Date of report: 27/05/2025 Ref: 2025-0246 Deceased name: Sophie Cotton Coroners name: Rebecca Sutton Coroners Area: Durham and Darlington Category: Police related deaths | Suicide (from 2015) | M...
www.judiciary.uk
June 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Yet another new PREVENTING FUTURE DEATHS report related to “Right Care, Right Person” —
NPCC and the College of Policing might have to start accepting there are some entirely predicted problems here with #RCRP.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
NPCC and the College of Policing might have to start accepting there are some entirely predicted problems here with #RCRP.
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
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New PREVENTING FUTURE DEATH REPORT from West Yorkshire -
RCRP related - and not the first RCRP related inquest for @WestYorksPolice - failure to identify a welfare check request as being missing person. Call sent to ambulance but no location known.
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RCRP related - and not the first RCRP related inquest for @WestYorksPolice - failure to identify a welfare check request as being missing person. Call sent to ambulance but no location known.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
www.judiciary.uk
May 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
New PREVENTING FUTURE DEATH REPORT from West Yorkshire -
RCRP related - and not the first RCRP related inquest for @WestYorksPolice - failure to identify a welfare check request as being missing person. Call sent to ambulance but no location known.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
RCRP related - and not the first RCRP related inquest for @WestYorksPolice - failure to identify a welfare check request as being missing person. Call sent to ambulance but no location known.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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Today’s #ResearchTip is if you’re using an acronym to describe your study ensure it is clear, respectful, and does not imply cures or other promises your work cannot deliver.
I’ve seen trials and other studies using acronyms like “hope” “calm” or “care” when they won't offer ANY of these things.
I’ve seen trials and other studies using acronyms like “hope” “calm” or “care” when they won't offer ANY of these things.
May 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Today’s #ResearchTip is if you’re using an acronym to describe your study ensure it is clear, respectful, and does not imply cures or other promises your work cannot deliver.
I’ve seen trials and other studies using acronyms like “hope” “calm” or “care” when they won't offer ANY of these things.
I’ve seen trials and other studies using acronyms like “hope” “calm” or “care” when they won't offer ANY of these things.