Phil Baldry

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Phil is a Mental Health Nurse Consultant on a male adult acute psychiatric admission ward in the North East of England. He has experience in forensic, personality disorder, primary care and urgent care services. His interests include staff wellbeing, patient experience and safety, clinical risk assessment, and personality disorders.

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When staff wellbeing programmes backfire: lessons from a systematic review of mental health ward interventions

A pile of papers

Around 40% of mental health professionals experience emotional exhaustion, but do the interventions designed to help them actually work? A new review suggests the answer is more complicated than most ward managers would like.

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Who’s got the obs sheets? Can QI methods reduce violence and restrictive practices on inpatient mental health wards?

Spotlights light up a dark setting

This large-scale quality improvement project across 55 mental health wards tested Board Relay, Zonal Observations, and Life Skills activities to improve therapeutic engagement. Results showed promising reductions in aggression, restrictive practices, and staff sickness.

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