One participant described their first section:

"I was taken to hospital in a black van by three people not wearing uniforms. I thought I had been kidnapped."

This study centres lived experience to show what needs to change in mental health services.

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Mental health unit care workers charged after BBC Panorama probe Two care workers are charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit in 2022.

Nurse and support worker charged with ill-treatment of patients detained a medium-secure mental health unit -

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Exploring How the Psychological Safety of Patients Is Impacted by Restrictive Practices in Inpatient Mental Healthcare: A Qualitative Study Restrictive practices are used to contain risk and maintain physical safety on inpatient mental health wards, but have been shown to negatively impact patient well-being and trust. Researchers and pr...

New paper by @bethlgriffin.bsky.social, the 2nd from her PhD is available online today!
This paper explores the impact of restrictive practices on psychological safety from the perspective of former patients.
The open access paper can be viewed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years More 16-24 year olds in England say they have symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder - BBC analysis finds.

Hospital appointment today for ongoing physical effects from OCD. From an injury that was almost ten years ago. I’ve had some physical healthcare but not help for OCD.

I’ve had zero therapy for OCD. I’ve been waiting for NHS treatment for over 6 years. It’s no closer
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Make Sure & Always Respond Channel 4’s Dispatches programme aired an episode on Monday evening about problems within the ambulance service having placed a journalist to work undercover as a 999 call handler in a service in t…

NEW BLOG - "Make Sure & Always Respond"

Some reflections on this week's @c4dispatches.bsky.social , esp on the PR response by NPCC to the programme.

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Afghanistan: Women trapped in the mental health system Accessing treatment in an Afghan mental health facility is difficult - but getting out can be harder.

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“I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)”

Girl who died after Maidenhead hospital failure unlawfully killed An inquest jury finds 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz was unlawfully killed.

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He is adorable

Sent you an email as I haven’t age verified on here to message yet!

I’ll message you

Girl, 14, died at psychiatric hospital after agency worker with false ID left her alone, inquest hears Ruth Szymankiewicz should have been under constant watch at Huntercombe hospital

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When does a Court of Protection order do more harm than good? Anorexia, the Court of Protection, and the ‘impossible burden’ Patricia’s Father & Ors v Patricia & Ors [2025] EWCOP 30 (T3) is a challenging case at a number of levels, over and above the human tragedy at the centre of it. Procedurally, it highl…

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Another new Preventing Future Death report, citing "Right Care, Right Person" -

• 16 inquests, 6 more pending
• 14 PFDs, 13 offering crucial or insight we need to pay attention to.

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'My disabled son was punched' - how a CCTV error exposed major abuse scandal Glynn Brown was told there was no film evidence of his son Aaron being abused, but that was not the case.

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Iatrogenic injustice: an institutional ethnography of Fitness to Practise hearings The public has an important role to play in the regulation of health and social care, including raising concerns about harms caused by health and soci…

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One in four young people in England have mental health condition, NHS survey finds Rates are three times as high in young women as in young men and mental ill health up across age groups, study says

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Under-fire NHS trust recorded patient ate breakfast three days after he died The mental health trust where Alice Figueiredo took her own life faced concerns over 20 other deaths.

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@debcoles13.bsky.social could you follow me so I can message you?

UK teenager who killed herself was ‘highly affected’ by terrorism arrest, inquest finds Rhianan Rudd died of ‘self-inflicted act’ after facing charges but coroner says failures in her case were ‘not systemic’

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Alice Figueiredo: We quit our jobs, sold our home twice and spent 10 years fighting the NHS A NHS trust and hospital manager have been found guilty of health and safety failings over the death of Alice Figueiredo.

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Alice Figueiredo: historic trial finds an NHS Trust and a former ward manager guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act 9 June 2025

In a historic trial, a London NHS Trust and the former ward manager have today been found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act, following the death of 22 year old Alice Figueiredo in one of its hospitals in 2015.

Alice Figueiredo death: NHS trust and medic guilty of failings An NHS trust was cleared of manslaughter but convicted of safety failings in the death of a patient.

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Police actions worsened medical crisis that led to black man’s death, inquest finds Godrick Osei had acute behavioural disturbance when police dragged him across a bathroom floor by his collar

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A tragic case that seems to illustrate the dangers of a simplistic understanding of the police role. Even when there's no crime or danger to others, police may have needed authority that other responders don't ("the mental health crisis team do not have the power to enter locked premises...").

Yet another new PREVENTING FUTURE DEATHS report related to “Right Care, Right Person” —

NPCC and the College of Policing might have to start accepting there are some entirely predicted problems here with #RCRP.

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New PREVENTING FUTURE DEATH REPORT from West Yorkshire -

RCRP related - and not the first RCRP related inquest for @WestYorksPolice - failure to identify a welfare check request as being missing person. Call sent to ambulance but no location known.

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I’ve had “imposter participants” try to take part my research and know others who have too. It’s definitely a thing

Today’s #ResearchTip is if you’re using an acronym to describe your study ensure it is clear, respectful, and does not imply cures or other promises your work cannot deliver.

I’ve seen trials and other studies using acronyms like “hope” “calm” or “care” when they won't offer ANY of these things.

Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools

I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.

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