Hospital admissions Blog Posts

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

  20 Jan 2026

  • Beth Cumber

  
• “Necessary evil” or hidden harm? A scoping review of informal coercion in psychiatry

  12 Sep 2025

  • Jessica Griffiths

  
• Lithium is best at decreasing the risk of depression-related hospitalisation in bipolar disorder, according to new cohort study

  03 Apr 2025

  • Duncan Swiffen

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

  28 Jan 2025

  • Jill Stavert

  
• When care causes harm: a systematic review of adverse experiences in mental health wards

  16 Jan 2025

  • Jessica Griffiths
  • and Una Foye

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

  21 Oct 2024

  • Magdalena Skowronska

  
• Rising temperatures and poor mental health: new review explores suicidal behaviour and mental health hospital attendance or admission

  27 Mar 2024

  • Jingni Ma

  
• Mental health problems and admissions to hospital for accidents and injuries in the UK military

  08 Mar 2024

  • Anamarija Veic

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

  15 Dec 2022

  • Lucy Maconick
  • and Sonia Johnson

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

  24 Nov 2022

  • Rob Allison