Mark Doherty

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@MentalHealthCop Completely agree. A good start would be to throw RCRP in the bin, and come up with an interface protocol which recognises that law enforcement and mental health services overlap hugely in terms of operational responsibilities and required skill sets.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@BenedictSpence You should get out more.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@MentalHealthCop I’m convinced now that MH services need to be delivered by standalone regional mental health trusts, not by integrated trusts that have to provide everything else as well, and don’t really get mental health.

[Michael Brown 🌍 @MentalHealthCop]

We don’t really have a mental health system - because it is not designed as and has not evolved as a system.

It’s a disorganisation of disparate agencies working in discord with each other.

[Michael Brown 🌍 @MentalHealthCop]

This is a really important point -

Whatever the problems (and there are many), the police, AMHPs, psychiatrists and mental health nurses, etc. were working in a SYSTEM.

Those designed, evolved and led the system(s) need to be giving evidence about the structures they created.

[Michael Brown 🌍 @MentalHealthCop]

@drsanjoykumar Whilst senior people are busy telling you how awful this all is, the structural context is moving towards making these events more likely, I'm afraid.

MHA reform, RCRP, deliberate decisions not to train people in legal issues and leadership failures to ensure joint-working.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@MrEddieTarazona @piersmorgan The “great” in Great Britain actually refers to the ancient distinction between the larger British landmass and “minor” Britain or what is now Brittany in France.

But I agree — we shouldn’t have sent our head of state to try and appease this arrogant, ignorant president.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@caroline_gm_d

Caroline—love your work but it’s nuCLEEar, not nuCUlar. You’ll be using the word a lot in the coming weeks, I’m sure.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@MentalHealthCop @nuwandiss True enough.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@dbfaceofreality No.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@evernote not letting me use the Evernote app until I’ve updated it (when I’m not able to access broadband) is NOT cool. Not user friendly. Not what I’m paying you for.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@Bratt_world Would have been good to see the answer. Sone of us still have attention spans.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@TerryBriton @hzeffman Bot

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@drewidia @pritipatel Go back to sleep.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@BabyD1111229 @tommyorbell I’m no historian, but I think the concept of breakfast is existed before 1944.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

Here I am, not quite dying, my body left to rot in a hollow tree.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@MountainHodler @JonathanPieNews I dunno—he’s quite successful, so hardly irrelevant.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@HelenMagi @GordonBrown And you’re entitled to those doubts, of course. But that does not mean that good palliative care cannot be provided whilst at the same time advancing people‘a right to end their lives at a time and in a manner of their choosing. There is no reason why you can’t do both.

[Mark Doherty @markdoherty1]

@HelenMagi @GordonBrown Why so? Why would enhancing palliative care prevent work on an effective assisted dying bill?