Thursday 6 June 2019

Mental health hospital where patients were secluded in unfurnished, unsafe rooms, rated inaequate by watchdog

Mental health hospital where patients were secluded in unfurnished, unsafe rooms, rated inaequate by watchdog Vulnerable patients at one of England’s largest charity-run mental health hospitals were kept in unsafe seclusion rooms for excessive amounts of time and without beds, blankets or pillows, a damning report has found.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated adolescent mental health services at St Andrew’s Healthcare hospital in Northampton ”inadequate”.

It has given the charity six months to turn around services at FitzRoy House, a specialist centre for up to 100 young people with mental health, learning disabilities and autism, or it will lose its registration. The Independent

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