Acute care Blog Posts

• Mental health admissions to medical wards: 65% increase in a decade for young people

  20 Jan 2026

  • Beth Cumber

  
• All eyes on the ward: the use and impact of surveillance in inpatient mental health settings

  29 Nov 2024

  • Nima Hunt

  
• Recovery under close observation – three decades on

  27 Nov 2024

  • Kyle Daniel
  • and Simon Bradstreet

  
• A deep dive into trauma-informed care in crisis, emergency and residential mental health settings

  21 Oct 2024

  • Magdalena Skowronska

  
• The enforced use of cameras in patients’ bedrooms may not reduce the incidence of self-harm

  03 Apr 2024

  • John Baker

  
• What crisis and acute mental health care is available to those with a ‘personality disorder’ diagnosis?

  08 Dec 2023

  • Keir Harding

  
• Trauma informed care on acute inpatient units: reducing self harm and restrictive practices

  20 Sep 2023

  • Kirsten Lawson

  
• Whose camera is it anyway? The use of body-worn cameras in acute mental health wards

  11 May 2023

  • Alison Faulkner

  
• Intensive home treatment in crisis: a randomised controlled trial from the Netherlands

  15 Dec 2022

  • Lucy Maconick
  • and Sonia Johnson

  
• Acute day hospitals: an option for mental health crisis care?

  28 Jun 2021

  • Dieneke Hubbeling