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Releasing Time to care, The NHS Productive Series (NHS Improvement)
Claire Cox posted an article in Environmental
The successful NHS Productives series, from NHS Improvement, are about ‘the how not the what’ and use a learning by doing approach that builds knowledge and skills to support frontline teams to make real and lasting improvements for themselves. -
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Fragments of a half life – back to bedlam
Claire Cox posted an article in Patient stories
Powerful bog written by Alison Cameron about her experiences as a patient on a mental health unit. -
Content ArticlePatients in inpatient mental health settings face similar risks (e.g., medication errors) to those in other areas of healthcare. In addition, some unsafe behaviours associated with serious mental health problems (e.g., self-harm), and the measures taken to address these (e.g., restraint), may result in further risks to patient safety. The objective of this review from Thibaut et al., published in BMJ Open, was to identify and synthesise the literature on patient safety within inpatient mental health settings using robust systematic methodology. The authors found that patient safety in inpatient mental health settings is under-researched in comparison to other non-mental health inpatient settings. Findings demonstrate that inpatient mental health settings pose unique challenges for patient safety, which require investment in research, policy development, and translation into clinical practice.
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Content ArticleIn this anonymous blog, published by the Guardian, the author describes their experience of working in an inpatient psychaitry unit during the current cornovirus outbreak. They raise concerns over the impossibility of physical distancing, lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), patients not being allowed to go out and a rise in violence and anxiety.
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Video: Living with schizophrenia (6 July 2023)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Mental health
In this video, Chris tells his story of how he dealt with a traumatic childhood and subsequent diagnosis of schizophrenia. He talks about the medication and therapy that have helped him. Warning: The film does contain references to distressing themes. -
Content ArticleThis is the transcript of an oral statement to the House of Commons by Steve Barclay MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on improving safety in mental health in-patient services across England.
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Content ArticleThis report published by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) looked to identify and explore remediable factors in the clinical and organisation of the physical healthcare provided to adult patients admitted to a mental health inpatient setting. The report suggests that a physical healthcare plan should be developed when patients are admitted to a mental health inpatient setting. Other key messages aimed at improving care include calls to: formalise clinical networks/pathways between mental health and physical health care; involve patients and their carers in their physical health care, and use admission as an opportunity to assess and involve patients in their general health, and include mental health and physical health conditions on electronic patient records.
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Content ArticleThe Northern Ireland Department of Health's Mental Health Strategy Delivery Plan for 2022/23 sets out the prioritised workstreams under the 2021-31 Mental Health Strategy, which was published in June 2021, alongside a ten-year Funding Plan. It outlines governance and monitoring arrangements, actions currently in progress and actions that will be delivered at a later date. The Delivery Plan is published alongside Mental Health Strategy Co-Production/Design Principles, designed to give structure and meaning to the Department’s desire to ensure continued co-production throughout the implementation of the ten-year Strategy.
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Content ArticleThe Department for Health and Social Care has launched an investigation into allegations made by 22 former patients of mental health units run by private firm The Huntercombe Group. The group ran at least six children’s mental health hospitals between 2012 and 2022. In this Independent article, young women who were subject to humiliating and sometimes abusive treatment talk about their time as inpatients. Some of the experiences they recount are harrowing: "I would get awoken by staff members restraining me out of bed and dragging me down to the de-escalation room to force-feed me." "Patients were left naked in their rooms under anti-ligature blankets because they wouldn’t buy anti-ligature clothing." "I distinctly remember someone saying ‘if you hit me again, I’ll hit you back ten times harder because there are no cameras in here and you can’t cry to [name of nurse] about it’."
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Ministerial Statement: Mental Health Update (23 January 2023)
Mark Hughes posted an article in Mental health
This is a written statement to the House of Commons by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Mental Health and Women’s Health Strategy), Maria Caulfield MP, on behalf of the UK Government. In this she provides an update on how £150 million of capital investment in NHS mental health urgent and emergency care infrastructure is being used and announces the commencement of a rapid review into patient safety in mental health inpatient settings in England. -
Content ArticleThis study in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing presents a qualitative evaluation of staff perspectives of the impact and value of the REsTRAIN Yourself initiative. REsTRAIN Yourself aimed to reduce the use of physical restraint in mental health inpatient wards through training and practice development with whole teams within ward settings. Thirty-six staff participated in semi-structured interviews for this study.
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Content ArticleThis document by the Restraint Reduction Network offers a framework to support care providers in reducing the use of restrictive practices. Restrictive practices are often a response to behaviours seen by care providers and wider society as ‘behaviours of concern’ or ‘challenging behaviour’. These behaviours can occasionally include wilful acts that have the potential to cause harm, but more often than not, these behaviours are symptoms of distress or frustration and a response to the environment or situation that a person finds themselves in. This document outlines the National Minimum Standards for the content of Restrictive Interventions Reduction Plans in mental health and learning disability settings.
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Content ArticleThe Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) model is described as "an innovative mental health workforce transformation model that brings together the police and community mental health services, in order to better support 'high intensity users' of Section 136 of the Mental Health Act (MHA) and public services." The SIM model is part of a 'High Intensity Network' (HIN) approach, which is now live in all south London boroughs. In this hub post, Steve Turner highlights the benefits and risks of this approach and seek your views on it.
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Content ArticleFor some time now I've been looking to find out more about mental health services in Trieste, Italy. Then I met Vincenzo Passante Spaccapietra, co-host of the Place of Safety? podcast series. This has enabled me to learn more about the closure of the mental institutions in Trieste, Italy, and the work of Franco Basaglia. I was keen to find out what really took place, what this really means in practice and how we can adopt this model in the UK. We were delighted to have become involved and to have recorded a couple of podcasts. I recommend this resource to everyone interested in safe, compassionate, patient led mental health care.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Debbie Ivanova, Deputy Chief Inspector — People with a learning disability and autistic people, and Jemima Burnage, Deputy Chief Inspector and Mental Health Lead, update on progress since the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) 'Out of Sight' report published in October 2020. Their blog discusses the findings of the authors' 'Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: Progress report' published in December 2021.
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Content ArticleIn 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.
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Content ArticleThis resource by the mental health charity Mind is for people who want to change the practice of restraint in mental health services and end reliance on force, particularly on adult mental health wards. It is mainly aimed at people who use mental health services, carers, advocates and campaigners. It provides information about restraint, people’s experiences, official guidance, good practice and campaigners’ stories.
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Content ArticleINQUEST's groundbreaking evidence-based report is based on our work with families of those who have died in mental health settings and related policy work. It identifies three key themes: 1. The number of deaths and issues relating to their reporting and monitoring. 2. The lack of an independent system of pre-inquest investigation as compared to other deaths in detention. 3. The lack of a robust mechanism for ensuring post-death accountability and learning.
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Content ArticleThe Mental Health Optimal Staffing Tool (MHOST) was created, with the support of Health Education England, in recognition that there was no published, evidenced based mental health workforce tool which could be used in mental health hospitals. It has been developed alongside clinical leaders and workforce staff in mental health trusts and rigorously tested and validated.
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Content ArticleThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) developed an evidence-based guideline on safe staffing for nursing in inpatient mental health settings. This guideline is primarily for NHS provider organisations or other organisations that provide or commission inpatient mental health services for the NHS.
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Content ArticleA study of police wearing body worn cameras showed a reduction in complaints, and a decrease in occurrences and crimes. Mental health staff working in inpatient settings do not routinely wear cameras. The aim of this project, published in Mental Health in Family Medicine, was to examine the feasibility of using body worn cameras in an inpatient mental health setting. The results found that both staff and patients considered that their use in an inpatient mental health setting was beneficial. Compared to the same period the year before, there was a reduction in complaints and incidents during the duration of the pilot.
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Content ArticleThis document outlines the UK Government's response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee report on the treatment of autistic people and people with learning disabilities, published in July 2021. It contains responses to three main areas of interest raised by the Committee's report: Community support: reducing the number of autistic people and people with learning disabilities in inpatient facilities, and the benefits of the Trieste model The use of restrictive practices in inpatient facilities and wider concerns relating to the appropriateness and continued use of such facilities The wellbeing of and accountability for autistic people and people with learning disabilities including the creation of a new role: the Intellectual Disability Physician, and the need for independent reviews into the deaths of autistic people and people with learning disabilities
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Content ArticleThe poor treatment of autistic people and people with learning disabilities has been a long-standing problem for the NHS and care system. Although successive governments have focused on supporting autistic people and people with learning disabilities to live independent and fulfilled lives in the community, over 2,055 people remain in secure institutions where they are unable to live fulfilled lives and are often subject to unacceptable and inhumane treatment. This report by the Health and Social Care Select Committee chaired by Jeremy Hunt MP outlines the finding of the committee's Inquiry into the treatment of autistic people by health and care services.
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Content ArticlePeople with a learning disability and autistic people should have the right support in place to live an ordinary life and fulfil their aspirations, in their own home. This action plan from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) aims to strengthen community support for people with a learning disability and autistic people, and reduce reliance on mental health inpatient care. This action plan outlines the government's policy to achieve this by: strengthening community support. reducing the overall reliance on specialist inpatient care in mental health hospitals. improving the experiences of people with a learning disability and autistic people across public services such as health, social care, education, employment, housing and justice. It brings together the commitments that have been made by different organisations to realise these aims, and aims to drive long-term change for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
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Content ArticleAutistic patients trapped in mental health units tell their stories, revealing a system of poor treatment, abuse and long stretches inside with their symptoms only getting worse.
