Survey of Britain’s NHS Mental Health Facilities Shows Safety Concerns
September 28th, 2009 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline
Spending a given amount of time at a mental health facility, whether to address an emergency or over a sustained period of time, can present diverse challenges and create many opportunities for clients. But feeling unsafe shouldn’t be part of the stay, a fact in contrast with recently collected results showing that NHS mental health trusts across the country fail to make their clients feel safe in their facilities. Compounded by complaints of perceived unfairness and a lack of availability of talk therapies and other activities, the reports of fear for client safety are triggering renewed dedications from industry professionals and lawmakers alike to provide quality care to those in need in Britain.
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4 comments so far
A facility should be a place where the condition of a patient improves, and not deteriorates. This should be kept in mind by each and every person working at the facility, right from the head-bosses to the smallest of a contributor to the facility.
Many people have this mental set-up by which their condition deteriorates as soon as they are shifted to a facility and such people must be given counselling and need to b spoken to. Because if they are left alone, the condition will never improve.
People being treated should be reassured again and again that it is not their fault that they have ended up there and that they are there to get cured and should stop feeling sick… This needs to be told with a lot of care and patience by mentors there.
NHS are u listening?? I am so glad for ppl who take their time to conduct these studies. Being someone who has gone to the NHS for treating chronic depression, I can tell you I got more depressed going to see an NHS doctor than I was in the first place. The lack of interest in the practitioner is so apparent and the facility I went to had the coldest people I had ever met.
Glad someone raised an alarm!! About time