Compulsory admission Blog Posts

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

  05 Jan 2026

  • Phil Baldry
  • and Nicola Clibbens

  
• Racialised experiences of detention under the Mental Health Act: a PhotoVoice study

  09 Dec 2025

  • Emma Watson

  
• Inequity in action: why minoritised ethnic patients are more often rapidly tranquilised and what needs to change

  11 Jul 2025

  • Oladayo Bifarin
  • Megan McGee
  • Walter Ugwuocha
  • and Simon Bradstreet

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

  30 Jun 2025

  • Emily Wood

  
• Updated review of experiences of compulsory treatment builds the case for legal reform to be grounded in lived experiences

  28 Jan 2025

  • Jill Stavert

  
• How can you compare data about mental health and mental capacity law across borders? #BIGSPD24

  17 Apr 2024

  • Alex Ruck Keene

  
• Psychiatric Advance Directives: more effective when facilitated by peer workers, according to French RCT

  24 Nov 2022

  • Rob Allison

  
• Migration and the increased risk of compulsory psychiatric admission for psychosis

  23 Mar 2021

  • Zuva Dengu