Access all Areas My article published in Care and Health Magazine (now defunct) which put pressure on the Department of Health to introduce CRB checks in PPI. they did this a month after the article was published.
Our Health, Our Care, Have Your Way is my response to the Norfolk PCT proposals, You Health, Your Care, Have Your Say, issued in early 2007.
PPI reorganisation (the ALB review). This sets out the dysfunctional elements in PPI and makes several recommendations for the future structure and operation of PPI.
Country Coffinnails Using a typical large county, this shows how one the government' decisions from the ALB review will compound the inequalities rural areas face in relation to towns and cities, exclude disabled people and slay genuine PPI in country areas.
Defensive Dodgers An example of the course of an actual complaint up to a referral to the Parliamentary Ombudsman. This demonstrates the feebleness and ineffectuality of the CPPIH Standards of Conduct and Complaints system and shows how they have mistreated their volunteers.
PPI = Patient and Public Impediment An early article looking at how PPI had been incompetently installed and CPPIH duplicity from the outset.
The Incredible Pitfalls Facing Volunteers for PPI The potential penalties of being daft enough to become a PPI Forum member.
The Mental Health Bill 2002 My personal comments on the Mental Health Bill.
The Joint Committee, MH Bill 2004 My submission to the Joint Committee listed as written evidence DMH 114, Ev 809.
Human Rights Committee, MH Bill 2002 My submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights' scrutiny of the Mental Health Bill 2002, listed and published as memorandum of evidence 10.
Comments on an Advocacy Code of Practice My contribution to the Durham University Draft Code of Practice on Advocacy commissioned by the Government in relation to the Mental Health Bill 2002.
Back Around the Circles A look at some of the background and recent history to mental health legislation.
accountability in whistleblowing The chapter: “Whistleblowing and Training for Accountability” in the book:“Whistleblowing in the Social Services” edited by Geoffrey Hunt and published by Arnold, London in 1998.
A whistleblowing Code of Practice Written for, and published by the British Association of Social Workers in 1994/5.
My evidence to the Parliamentary Health Committee Investigation into the future of PPI