Acute psychiatric care Blog Posts

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

  20 Jan 2026

  • Beth Cumber

  
• Thinking outside the box: alternatives to standard inpatient mental health care

  03 Jul 2025

  • Amber Jarvis

  
• Evidence-based safe staffing levels on mental health wards: there’s no such thing

  30 Jun 2025

  • Emily Wood

  
• 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

  
• Opening ward doors doesn’t make staff any more coercive

  13 Mar 2024

  • John Baker

  
• Peer support does not reduce hospital readmissions: the final word?

  08 Dec 2022

  • Danielle Lamb

  
• Hidden from the world: Out of area hospital placements for people diagnosed with personality disorder #NoOOA

  18 Jan 2022

  • Andy Bell

  
• Inpatient care: identifying factors that influence the length of stay

  09 Jul 2021

  • Sophia Pillai

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

  28 Jun 2021

  • Dieneke Hubbeling