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01 September 1998

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Mental health services should offer 24- hour care for people in acute mental health crises (DoH 1996). For people with severe mental illness this is most commonly...

Len Bowers: the man behind the Safewards model

10 February 2016

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Colin Parish interviews the driving force behind the Safewards approach, Len Bowers, as he prepares to retire from the profession.

Home treatment team reduces numbers of acute admissions

01 July 2010

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article describes the work of the Belfast home treatment team. It describes the structure of the service, its skills base and aspects of the work it does. It...

Experiences of stress among nurses in acute mental health settings

07 July 2009

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim To explore occupational stressors, the lived experience of stress and the meaning of this experience for staff working in acute mental health care. Method The...

Promoting service-user satisfaction in close observations

12 May 2015

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Close observations are only used as a last resort to manage risk in inpatient mental health facilities and have been widely criticised for offending the dignity and...