Restraint incidents on Northampton adolescent mental health wards revealed in new inspection St Andrew's Hospital, in Billing Road, Northampton, was criticised for its use of secluding and restraining patients in an episode of Channel Four's Dispatches in March.
Particularly, they were widely condemned for use of the high-risk 'prone' - or face-down - restraint, of which 600 incidents were recorded between 2015 and 2016 across the facility's child and adolescent wards.
Particularly, they were widely condemned for use of the high-risk 'prone' - or face-down - restraint, of which 600 incidents were recorded between 2015 and 2016 across the facility's child and adolescent wards.
Now, an inspection carried out at St Andrew's new child & adolescent mental health facility, Fitzroy House, by the Care Quality Commission in February has given a breakdown of the ward's use of restraints in the past year. Northampton Chronicle and Echo
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