The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published findings from a survey of people’s experiences of acute mental health inpatient services.
The first of its kind, the survey collected responses from over 7,500 recent inpatients and found:
- only a third felt as involved in decisions about their care and treatment as much as they wanted to be
- less than half (45%) ‘always’ felt safe on the ward, and 16% did not feel safe at all
- less than half of the 52% who wanted talking therapies (such as counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy and anxiety management) received any
- almost half (48%) of patients said the potential side effects of medicines that were prescribed to them while in hospital were not clearly explained to them
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