Ivan Riches has found our pod casts on our YouTube Channel thewmrdc.  He suggested that we may be interested in his short film Who is Peter?  This film, provides an opportunity to meet Peter.   Peter explains that he is going to stay in a crisis centre. Peter talks through his experience of lving with schizophrenia. 

I wonder if the general public subscribe to the view that prison is one big party?  On Friday the lady who cut my hair, certainly held this view. It isn't a hardship she told me, "they have TVs, play stations, 3 hot meals a day.  If it was up to me I'd throw away the key and let them rot!"  We disagreed and she told me I was wrong, because lots of the local prison officers come into the same place and they all say it is a party.

Having got passed this initial dumping of all her values across the salon floor, much like my greying hair.  We continued to talk through why I do the job I do.

At the end of last week, we had a response through our you tube channel to our places of safety training DVDs. The response was a patient experience of being held in a police station under S136 of the Mental Health Act, some 2 years ago.  You can view Amy's experience here.

 So my challenge for today is how does a report on the benefits of the patient IT system in West Midlands, make a difference to the patient.....what's your challenge for the day?