Children's psychiatric ward report raises restraint concerns

A new report has raised concerns about the use of physical restraint and forced tube feeding in Edinburgh's inpatient mental health ward for 12 to 17-year-olds.The inspection of the Melville Unit at ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

A hospital closed its psychiatric ward and exposed the region’s fragile system

San Diego County reached an inflection point around mental health care in 2018, when Tri-City Medical Center shuttered its 18-bed psychiatric unit. Directors of the Oceanside hospital said the closure ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

As Psychiatric Wards Close, Patients Languish In Emergency Rooms

A study found psychiatric patients waited an average of 11.5 hours in hospital emergency rooms before being treated or released. That's in part... As Psychiatric Wards Close, Patients Languish In ...

Alice Figueiredo: NHS trust and ward manager to be sentenced - over a decade after young patient's death

Her stepfather tells Sky News: "The fact we have these repeated deaths of very young people in secure mental health units ...

Ontario facing renewed calls to fund 24/7 addictions, mental health ward in Oshawa

Ontario is facing renewed calls to create a 24/7 mental health and addictions ward at Lakeridge Health Oshawa after Durham ...
Washington Examiner

Freed from mental ward, atheist gets death threats

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian atheist released from the mental ward to which his Muslim family committed him by force said Thursday he is getting death threats for blaspheming against Islam.