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We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Following leading work in AWP, nurses can now administer electroconvulsive treatment across the UK.
The Royal College of Psychiatry ECT has accepted the results of an AWP led national pilot study to train experienced specialist nurses to deliver ECT treatment as well as doctors.
This new practice, which gives patients better continuity of care and gives ECT nurses a chance to expand their role, was first proposed by our own Lead ECT nurse John Leyden, who is also ECT nurse representative for England Wales and N. Ireland on the Royal College of Psychiatry ECT special interest group.
Mental health units and police services are not staffed sufficiently to provide safe care for vulnerable patients, according to Unison general secretary Dave Prentis. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
A new partnership between the Trust and West Yorkshire Police is helping support staff and service users on adult mental health inpatient wards at Fieldhead.
The work is aimed at tackling challenging behaviour by people in our care which poses a risk to others in the most appropriate way. For example, police officers will come and talk to a person at the early stages in a pattern of behaviour to stop things escalating.
Results from an RCN survey of mental health nursing staff show more than half think mental health equality hasn’t been achieved five years after the Westminster Government pledged to introduce measures to ensure people with serious mental health problems had the same access to treatment as that experienced by people with physical health problems
This report shares our findings and recommendations after reviewing incidents related to sexual safety on mental health wards.
In 2017, following concerns raised on an inspection of a mental health trust, we carried out a review of reports on patient safety incidents that staff had submitted through the NHS National Reporting and Learning System. We found that many reports described sexual safety incidents, including sexual assault and harassment.
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