Mental Health

How does a story of shipwrecked sailors from the 19th century relate to the way in which the Mental Capacity Act works? The answer lies in the common law doctrine…

What’s the most important issue in mental health? Good treatment? Timely hospital care? Being treated with respect? Contact at times of crisis? All of these are important, but you’ll probably…

I heard a discussion on BBC Radio 4’s In the Mind programme over Christmas about Nathan Filer’s book The Shock of the Fall, which won a number of awards last…

Among the challenges of employing people, coping with an employee’s mental ill-health is one most of us would prefer to avoid. Yet such ill-health accounts for 28% of illness and…

Real life documentaries looking at the day to day lives of our citizens are a feature of so many television programmes these days, it’s easy to get reality fatigue. Having…