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
Shaun Lintern
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.
Shaun Lintern
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
