CQC - Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: Progress report (December 2021)

Summary

In this report, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) comments on progress following publication of its 'Out of sight – who cares?' report in October 2020, and highlights the main areas where further work is still needed.

Content

This report states that since the publication of 'Out of sight', stakeholders have been responding to the recommendations made by the CQC.

The CQC itself has been implementing the recommendations by improving how they identify closed cultures and regulation of services for people with a learning disability and autistic people.

The report also states that more still needs to be done to improve the health and care experiences of people with a learning disability and autistic people, as:

• there are still too many people in inpatient hospital wards
• when admitted, some people are spending too long in hospital and discharge can be very slow
• well over 2,000 mental health inpatients were reported to have been subject to restrictive interventions in August 2021.