Health and social care professionals are gatekeepers to, and custodians of, confidential service user information. In the United Kingdom (UK), police investigations have unveiled cases of payments being made to public service officials by journalists in return for service user information. The purpose of this discussion is to investigate such cases in the context of high-security forensic care. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
This study considers how those who work in prisons are affected by and respond to repetitive self-harm of imprisoned women in English prisons. This paper considers the perspectives of custodial staff working in this area on a day-to-day basis. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text.
Open access. Recently, the term ‘locked rehabilitation’ has spread from commissioning to now also clinical parlance. This is without any clear service description or category of patient which this service manages. Differences between this new term and an established definition of low secure services are examined and reasons for the introduction of this terminology are discussed. This is contextualised within service development, payment by results and measures of quality. It is argued that there is a need for ongoing measurements of types of patients admitted to, and treatments offered by, this ‘new’ ward, as well as those within psychiatric intensive and low secure care services.
This service evaluation project explored service users’ experiences of positive behavioural support (PBS) within a medium secure mental health service. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Open access. Personality Disorder (PD) is an enduring, multi-faceted mental disorder, associated with adverse health effects, difficulties with interpersonal relationships and in some cases increased risk to others. A limited number of dedicated forensic mental health services are available for serious offenders with severe personality disorder. The recent Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) strategy aims to ensure that most such offenders are treated in prison rather than secure psychiatric services, except in highly complex cases where this is not possible. While the strategy sets out very broad criteria relating to this, greater clarity is needed to support decisions about appropriate transfer and hence enhance public protection. This study explored which characteristics professional experts associate with appropriate transfer from prison to forensic mental health services for high-risk offenders with PD.