New Health Minister Maria Coffield said she was “looking” for safety in the area Psychological health Units when appealing for ‘abuse’ Detected by independent Last month.
During questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Labour’s shadow health minister, Dr Rozina Allen Khan, said: “In the past four weeks, there have been three investigations into abuse in inpatient mental health settings, the government must be on top of the issues that do not. It relies on classified reports from Sky News, independent and panorama.
Patients experience isolation, excessive use of restraint, bullying and dehumanization, and falsification of medical records.
Patients and their families expect to be safe. The Tory chaos means the government has not addressed the allegations of abuse, as there has been no mental health minister for weeks.”
The question comes next independent Sky News has revealed allegations of “systematic abuse” against hospitals owned by private provider The Huntercombe Group, now owned by Active Care Group.
In September, BBC Panorama published a report exposing abuse within the Edenfield Centre, which is run by the NHS Hospital, the Greater Manchester Hospital Foundation for Mental Health.
Dr Allen Khan asked new mental health minister Maria Caufield if she would conduct a rapid review of inpatient mental health units, responding to Labor concerns about inpatient mental health services and apologizing to patients and their families.
Charity INQUEST has called for a public investigation to examine safety across mental health units in the UK after The Independent, Sky News and Panorama reports.
The Health Department Welfare in response to ‘independent’The investigation said it took the allegations “seriously” and was “investigating the concerns raised”.
However, when the Department of Homeland Security was subsequently asked, it did not provide any further details about how the allegations were investigated.
Ms. Coffield is also the Secretary for Women’s Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, and has faced controversy over past votes against having “safe zones” around abortion clinics.
Responding to a question from Dr. Allen Khan, Ms. Coffield said: “Of course, we apologize for the cases that we have seen, anyone who has seen some of those programmes, are both distressing and unacceptable. I am not only the Minister of Mental Health, I am the Minister of Patient Safety
“So I’m not only going to address cases in Panorama and other programs, but across the board, because I want to make sure that inpatient mental health services are as safe as possible.
“We know that these are some of the most vulnerable patients who cannot speak up when there are problems and we are looking at recruitment, training and reporting mechanisms. In the particular case highlighted in the Panorama programme, the government is working closely with NHS England, CQC and those individual trusts. “.
The Department of Health and Social Care has been asked to specify more details about how the minister intends to screen patient safety within mental health hospitals.
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