Only 23% of England is covered by assertive outreach services for people with severe mental illness in the community - these evidence based teams have been decimated over the past 2 decades. I spoke with
@nuwandiss who helps run one of the last remaining teams in Leeds
There have been 570 mental health homicides in the past 30 years - in almost every case the perpertrator was known to services, was not taking meds and there were failures of risk assessments, communication, and discharge planning.