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  • Patching up

    While not being extremely well experienced in making applications for people to be detained in psychiatric units, I’m certainly building up a fair amount of experience quickly. This week was the shortest assessment that I have been involved with. It involved a woman, Mrs J, who has dementia and...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-04-2008

  • Paper Trails and Mountains

    I spent a lot of time with my computer at work. Inputting and logging. Writing and refining. Reports, contacts, telephone conversations, attempted visits, visits, phone calls from concerned friends and neighbours. It is all logged. Or rather it is supposed to be. I’m definitely more lax than I...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008

  • Revisiting

    I have been in my current team for a couple of years. I worked in the same local authority before that though for about three years. The geographical boundaries of the areas that I work in don’t strictly overlap so I haven’t had it happen very often that I see people that I used to [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008

  • The Horse Man

    It used to be quite straightforward. I was in an assessment team so someone would make a referral to our services - usually the person themselves, or a family member or a GP or district nurse - someone who had reason to understand that care was needed for some reason. Sometimes the referrals came from...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008

  • Reasons to the Cheerful - Part One

    I had, for one reason or another, a particularly difficult week last week. Partly due to work-related matters and issues - trying to cram in a five day workload into three days with a couple of days out training - partly just stuff happening at home that I wasn’t expecting - nothing particularly...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008

  • On the ward

    Image via Wikipedia I knew it wasn’t going to be a quiet day when I found a pink paper with a written recommendation for a Section 3 from one of our doctors sitting on my desk next to the ASW Duty Book - a book in which we note any Mental Health Act Assessments that [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008

  • Guardianship - or a journey into Section 7 of the Mental Health Act

    I was called into one of the CMHT (Community Mental Health Team) meetings last week. It was a bit of a surprise. We don’t tend to go into other peoples’ meetings. It is almost like entering an alternate universe. People have the same roles and even tend to sit in the same places around the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-01-2008

  • Delayed Discharges

    Since moving from a generic Community Care team into a specialist Mental Health team a few years ago, I haven’t had as much contact with the vagaries of the delayed discharge system as I did back then. Yesterday was a rude (in every sense of the word) awakening. The Community Care (Delayed Discharge...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • Some things for the (long) weekend..

    By the time this is published, I’ll be sitting on a train on my way to beautiful Northumbria - ready to sun myself over the weekend - ok, maybe ’sunning myself’ is a bit hopeful…. I had a positive response to my last round-up post - well , three people said they liked it and no...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2008

  • Social Inclusion online?

    This morning, I came across this interview in The Guardian with Tim Hunt, Mental Health Lead on the Patient Opinion site which is from a couple of weeks back now. I had never heard of Patient Opinion, but it is a site which, unsurprisingly, given the name,  allows patients to give opinions on the services...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008
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