Emergency admissions Blog Posts

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

  20 Jan 2026

  • Beth Cumber

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

  21 Oct 2024

  • Magdalena Skowronska

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

  08 Dec 2023

  • Keir Harding

  
• Suicide risk in young people who self-harm and visit emergency departments

  09 Sep 2020

  • Katerina Kavalidou

  
• People with severe mental illness have more adverse outcomes from medical or surgical treatment

  18 May 2018

  • Laoise Renwick

  
• Annual health checks may reduce emergency hospital admissions for preventable conditions

  30 Sep 2016

  • Pauline Heslop

  
• Empowering patients can lead to fewer hospital readmissions, according to small RCT

  29 Jan 2016

  • Clarissa Giebel

  
• Rates of emergency admissions to hospital higher for people with learning disabilities

  20 Feb 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Emergency bed use: data briefing from the King’s Fund. What the numbers tell us

  19 Jan 2012

  • Sue Lacey-Bryant