When someone is having a mental health crisis — whether they’re thinking about suicide, acting erratically or experiencing hallucinations — they frequently end up in a hospital emergency department, ...
Patients with mental health conditions were able to able to harm themselves with items from a hospital's emergency department, the health watchdog has found. A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report at ...
“Subtle signs of delirium and/or declining mental awareness can include disorientation about date, location, reason for admission,” said Meghana R. Medavaram, MD, associate director of consultation ...
Patients are suffering the “torture” of waiting up to three days in A&E in “utterly degrading” conditions for a bed in mental health wards, nurses have claimed. The number of mental health patients ...
Getting a complaint to stick in Michigan’s mental health system isn’t easy, an MLive investigation revealed. In 2023, 73% of complaints were found to be unsubstantiated and never investigated any ...
A mental health hospital has been rated outstanding following a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection. Inspectors said staff at Castle Lodge Independent Hospital in Bransholme, Hull, had put people ...