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A policy in conflict with the aims of patient care

01 February 2009

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

Despite periodic calls in the press to keep ‘dangerous’ mental health service users locked up, our recent research findings on mental health wards actually lead to...

A model of de-escalation

09 June 2014

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

While de-escalation is much discussed among staff, and guidelines tell us to use it more, there are few comprehensive descriptions of what it is. This article...

Beyond the obvious

01 September 2007

Mental Health Practice

Interact

Dear Editor, I’d like to make a few corrections and comments in response to letters in the July issue of MHP about the City-128 study.

Email interview

01 October 2002

Mental Health Practice

Interview

What is the title of your new book? Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder: Response and Role of the Psychiatric Team. It is published by Routledge.

Runaway patients

01 September 2003

Mental Health Practice

A&S Science

When a patient absconds, it’s a worrying thing for the nurses on any acute psychiatric ward. Questions buzz through their heads, such as: ‘Will he be all right?’,...

Unlocked potential

20 January 2009

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Many mental health professionals believe that locking ward doors is in patients’ best interests – by preventing them from leaving and reducing the chances of them...

Major study launched to shed light on the differences between acute inpatient wards

01 February 2004

Mental Health Practice

News

One of the many things we have found puzzling over the years is how different acute psychiatric wards can be from one another. Some seem to be oases of calm and...

Observing and engaging: new ways to reduce self harm and suicide

01 July 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

It’s been a long haul, but the City-128 research report on the use of special observation to reduce self-harm on acute psychiatric wards was finally released in May,...

Runaway success

21 January 2004

Nursing Standard

Nursing the future

ABSCONDING BY patients from acute psychiatric wards is a significant problem, with rates of between 34 and 39 per 100 patients at risk (Bowers et al 1998)....

Our work shows how research can meet both academic and service demands

21 January 2004

Nursing Standard

Nursing the future

Academic researchers are often pilloried for failing to produce research that has any relevance to nurses, who are required to develop their clinical practice...