NT coroner finds staff failures, bed shortages and confusion over medications contributed to Tiwi woman's death in Darwin hospital
The Northern Territory coroner has handed down her findings into the death of a Tiwi Islands woman at Royal Darwin Hospital ...
Without doctors, hospital patients left in locked wards
Extremely unwell patients held against their will at a western Sydney hospital are waiting for days to see a psychiatrist.
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Incidents ‘under-reported’ on NHS ward where patient died
Procedural changes on a London NHS ward where a patient took her life could be “difficult” to implement, a court ...
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This London Museum Is Located Inside The World’s Oldest Psychiatric Institution And Explores The History Of Mental Healthcare
The Museum of the Mind is dedicated to the history of mental health treatment, and plays a vital role in destigmatising ...
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Lincolnshire mental health units overwhelmed and understaffed, employee claims
Lincolnshire’s acute mental health units are severely understaffed and patients are at risk of avoidable harm, a ...
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New Study Finds Abuse in “Prison-Like” Psychiatric Facilities
The University of Birmingham’s first-of-its-kind analysis of 111 studies from 25 nations reveals that psychiatric patients are traumatized and abused.
Patients blast ‘culture of cruelty’ at Scots kids psych unit where nurses ‘mocked suicide attempts’
A HEALTH board has launched two probes following allegations of cruelty at a mental health facility for teenagers. The BBC spoke to a number of young people who were treated at Skye House in ...
Removing patient risks on wards not simple - court
An expert psychiatrist has said it was not "straightforward" to remove plastic bin liners from a mental health hospital ward ...
Kids on the Psychiatric Ward
Young women tell their stories from years spent on an adolescent psychiatric ward - a place supposed to make them better, but which they say failed them and left them traumatised.
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Former child mental health patients allege ‘cruelty’ from nurses
Read about allegations by young mental health patients of abuse and cruelty from nurses at Skye House in Glasgow.
Child psychiatric care 'was more like abuse'
One of the women, Stephanie, told BBC Scotland: "The nurses were more abusive than caring." NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde ...