While the Telegraph highlights:
Thousands of mental health patients go missing from wards
The sectioned patients either escaped from wards, went missing during authorised leave or failed to return to hospital when they should have, a critical report by the Healthcare Commission found.
During six months in 2007, patients detained under the Mental Health Act went missing on 2,745 occasions for a total of 8,870 nights
The Independent writes specifically about how unsafe such wards are.
Despite increased spending of £1.2bn in real terms on adult mental health services since 2002, one in four of England’s 10,000 mental hospital beds is in a trust rated as “weak”, which, says the commission, “does not meet the minimum requirements and reasonable expectations of patients and public”.
There was previous discussion (originally discussing the waste of the ology and iatry in mental health) which developed into suggesting we should be focusing more on the actual wards rather than splitting neurons; but I’m not about to revive it.
So, back to the report. What does it tell us? Apparently it reports that:
Overall, eight trusts were rated as “excellent” (accounting for 843 beds – 9%), 20 as “good” (2,808 beds – 28%), 30 as “fair” (3,985 beds – 40%) and 11 as “weak” (2,249 beds – 23%).
Hmm… so what does this mean?
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