Recently, I was threatened with serious violence by a prisoner after I had begun gradually reducing a long-standing antipsychotic prescription. I am deliberately withholding and altering peripheral de...

This week, during the course of providing psychiatric care in prison, I was threatened with violence twice. Neither interaction was particularly extraordinary by prison standards.

Every year, we publish a report on the fitness to practise concerns we receive. It includes information on how our processes work, and how we support everyone involved in our investigations.

Summary The principle of equivalence requires people in prison to receive healthcare of a standard comparable to that available in the community. Yet equivalence cannot mean reproducing community serv...

Recently, I developed a paper based on my experience working in prison mental health services. I used generative AI as part of the process, and I was open about that.

npj Digital Medicine - Evaluating large language models for assessment of psychosis risk

In the 2025 national annual report published today (10 June 2026) for the adult prison and youth estate, Independent Monitoring

BackgroundMental health screening in prisons is vital to uphold prisoners’ right to mental health services, ensure safety, improve quality of life and reduce...

The hospital trust treated Valdo Calocane before he killed three people in the city in 2023.