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19/06/2013
Mental Health Charity Calls For Ban Of Face-Down Restraint
The use of face-down restraint in mental health hospitals is to be reviewed, and possibly banned, following an investigation which has shown the controversial technique is being used "hundreds of times a year" in some facilities.
Mental health charity Mind investigated use of the technique and found that many trusts had already stopped using the restraint as they considered it traumatic and dangerous.
However, a Freedom of Information Act request showed that two mental health facilities would used the technique two or three times a day.
According to the BBC, in 2011-2012 the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear trust used face-down restraint 923 times, and the Southern Health trust, based in Southampton, used it 810 times.
It is also understood that a number of other mental health trusts were unable to provide any figures for use of the restraint.
Mind have now called on the government to "introduce an end to face-down physical restraint in all healthcare settings urgently".
(MH/CD)
Mental health charity Mind investigated use of the technique and found that many trusts had already stopped using the restraint as they considered it traumatic and dangerous.
However, a Freedom of Information Act request showed that two mental health facilities would used the technique two or three times a day.
According to the BBC, in 2011-2012 the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear trust used face-down restraint 923 times, and the Southern Health trust, based in Southampton, used it 810 times.
It is also understood that a number of other mental health trusts were unable to provide any figures for use of the restraint.
Mind have now called on the government to "introduce an end to face-down physical restraint in all healthcare settings urgently".
(MH/CD)
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