Category: Preventing Calocane and the next one
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The state of play you are paying for – Part 1a
Here, I’m intertwining (into a rope) some of the strands I’ve covered previously, strands like ‘Least restrictive diktat’, ‘Free – to commit suicide by dealer’ to show you what you are paying for. Because you won’t read this elsewhere. Here are some heavily edited (for confidentiality) but completely true summaries. A. Imagine a series of…
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Unexpected learning … Part II & Make scrotes change Pt I
‘Clare’s Law’ and ‘Make scrotes change their ways Pt 1’ A brief Wikipedia hx of the build-up to Clare’s Law. ‘Clare’s Law is named after Clare Wood, a 36 year old mother. Clare met her murderer and ex-boyfriend, 40 year old George Appleton, on Facebook. Appleton had a violent criminal history which Clare didn’t know about.…
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Unexpected learning from one of those compulsory e-courses. Pt I
Once upon a time, I had to sit through an e-learning course on domestic abuse. The course banged on about specific groups being at increased risk. At this point my antennae were twitching because I’m always tuned in to the societal harms caused by ‘be nice’, ‘least restrictive policies’ and Princess Tony’s adoption of the…
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Assertive outreach II (the purpose of AO)
What’s the purpose of Assertive Outreach? Put Calocane aside for now (and Clunis, Addo, Salvador and all the other worst cases) and imagine these groups instead. AO is for patients and not-yet patients who – a) don’t want to work with mhs, don’t want to risk being sectioned because last time it cost them weeks…
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Assertive outreach III
This is the kind of Assertive Outreach that could have prevented Calocane (and the next one). Well-staffed and well-trained teams of community nurses and HCAs who are legally empowered (more on this later) to insist, impolitely and forcibly when necessary, that every patient who disengages, DNAs appointments, refuses their tablets and/or depots and refuses community…
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Calocane. What could and should have been done differently?
I’ll start with a non-exhaustive list. 1. Assertive outreach. 2. Refocus priorities onto –