The BBC report (April 2019) that:
“Police in Berkshire have stopped more than 150 mental health patients from being sectioned or detained unnecessarily in cells over the past year.
Officers credit an initiative where mental health nurses join them on duty for an evening.
Thames Valley Police said the ‘invaluable’ service saves officers’ time because the nurses have access to medical records. There are now calls for the service to be expanded so it’s available around the clock.”
You can watch a 2 minute video about this from here.
Other posts about a coherent system:
RELEASE (REdressing Long-tErm Antidepressant uSE): protocol for a 3-arm pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial effectiveness-implementation hybrid type-1 in general practice
Lancet Psychiatry: We Are Undervaluing the Placebo Effect
Rates of Prolonged Grief Disorder: Considering relationship to the person who died and cause of death