‘Urgent’ safety issues in mental health hospitals, review concludes

Mental health patients and nursing staff are being failed by a system “buckling under the weight of demand and decades of underinvestment”, nursing leaders have warned.

Their comments came in response to the publication of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB)'s final report in its series of investigations focusing on mental health inpatient services in England.

The report warned that staffing and resource constraints in inpatient and community mental health settings were impacting the ability to provide safe and therapeutic care to patients.

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Source: Nursing Times, 29 May 2025