Emergency department Blog Posts

• Are crisis responses for children and young people effective?

  27 Jun 2024

  • Beth Cumber

  
• Are the kids alright? Emergency help for suicide and self-harm during the COVID-19 pandemic

  25 May 2023

  • Molly McCarthy

  
• Self-harm in autistic people: meta-analysis confirms higher risk compared to non-autistic people

  24 Aug 2022

  • Mirabel Pelton

  
• Extreme ambient heat linked to increased mental health emergencies, according to new US nationwide study

  17 May 2022

  • Trish Darcy
  • and Peter Coventry

  
• Why don’t people receive a psychosocial assessment in emergency departments after self-harm?

  17 Jan 2022

  • Amelia Talbot

  
• Healthcare contact prior to suicide: key opportunities for suicide prevention

  30 Jul 2021

  • Su-Gwan Tham

  
• Patients with learning disabilities visiting psychiatric ED may be sent home with no recorded follow up plans

  07 Sep 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Proactive community services could reduce use of psychiatric emergency department by people with learning disabilities

  26 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield