Street Triage Workshop

On Tuesday of this week, the College of Policing hosted a small workshop on street triage. It was an invitation only event to start gathering ideas about how to tackle a particular piece of work we’ve been set by Her Majesty’s of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMIC). In their 2018 Picking Up the […]

Even More on ABD

Today the College of Paramedics produced their position statement on Acute Behavioural Disturbance and it adds weigh to those tomes I’ve previously pushed as authorities or resources on the subject. ABD continues to be a subject of debate, arising recently in another post I did during a pre-inquest hearing in Bournemouth in to the death […]

ABD and the Ambulance Service

I haven’t blogged for almost two months! Various reasons – busy, on holiday, bored of saying the same thing over and over again … there are a few in the pipeline but I decided to put them all to one side to write this one, because the story animated me. It concerns the concept of […]