"Casualty overload" from the Southall riots.

Southall: the GMC responds.

Citizen, interrupted: the 2011 English riots from a psychosocial perspective

Aims. This is a contribution to the debate over the 2011 English riots from a psychosocial perspective. Methods. We compare the impulsive and 'mindless' behaviour of rioters with the impulsive, violent and contradictory behaviour of people affected by severe personality disorders. Results. ...

Leadership as a component of crowd control in a hospital dealing with a mass-casualty incident: lessons learned from the October 2000 riots in Nazareth.

INTRODUCTION Crowd control is essential to the handling of mass-casualty incidents (MCIs). This is the task of the police at the site of the incident. For a hospital, responsibility falls on its security forces, with the police assuming an auxiliary role. Crowd control is difficult, especially when the casualties are due to riots involving clashes between rioters and police. This study uses dat...

Urban Riots in Sweden

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Southall is cleared of serious professional conduct.

The child protection paediatrician David Southall has been cleared of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council over actions he took in two cases between 13 and 22 years ago. A GMC fitness to practise panel found him not guilty of serious misconduct in keeping special case files separate from hospital medical records on two children without sufficient signposting, and sendi...