Guidance by health bodies suggests that restraint on patients should not be used for longer than 10 minutes.

A teenager admitted to a mental health unit was able to burn himself and injure his head - despite requiring supervision by ...

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) has published its findings after a Mental Health Services Safe Delivery of Care ...

A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...

Healthcare Improvement Scotland inspected the unit at University Hospital Wishaw last year.

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

A new restraint device designed to preserve patient dignity has been introduced at Ocean Views mental health facility, in ...