Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
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There have been 570 mental health homicides in the past 30 years - in almost every case the perpertrator was known to services, was not taking meds and there were failures of risk assessments, communication, and discharge planning.
Have mental health services gone too far in balancing the rights of the patient against public safety for those with serious mental health illness? As the Nottingham Inquiry concludes its evidence, families affected by homicide speak out:
www.thetimes.com/article/eb00...
Sanjoy Kumar’s daughter Grace was stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic. Now he is fighting to reform the ‘broken’ mental health system
Only 23% of England is covered by assertive outreach services for people with severe mental illness in the community - these evidence based teams have been decimated over the past 2 decades. I spoke with @drdiss.bsky.social who helps run one of the last remaining teams in Leeds
I'd encourage any young health journalist to enter this year. A great way to start a career in the best specialism.
Great reporting by Shaun here. A staggering feature of these homicides is that in almost half of cases, the families of attackers had raised concerns!
Have mental health services gone too far in balancing the rights of the patient against public safety for those with serious mental health illness? As the Nottingham Inquiry concludes its evidence, families affected by homicide speak out:
www.thetimes.com/article/eb00...
Absolute tosh discussed in Parliament this morning over abolishing Healthwatch England. Ministers totally tone deaf on the well documented history of the NHS and DHSC diminishing patient voice. Their simple answer seems to be "we'll do it better this time, honest". They won't.
🚨 Two children in England have died from measles this year. One child died from “acute measles” and another linked to the late effects of measles. So far this year there have been 736 cases compared with 959 cases for the whole of 2025.
