In-patient units Blog Posts

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

  12 Sep 2025

  • Jessica Griffiths

  
• The enforced use of cameras in patients’ bedrooms may not reduce the incidence of self-harm

  03 Apr 2024

  • John Baker

  
• From subject to cause: can patients’ circumstances predict the use of coercion in psychiatric hospital admissions?

  16 Feb 2024

  • Nima Hunt

  
• Care pathway approach in a learning disability inpatient service

  28 Aug 2015

  • Tom Crossland

  
• Census analysis shows numbers of people with learning disabilities in in-patient beds falling from 2010-13

  29 Aug 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Exploration of views of resident in-patients with learning disabilities identifies key themes

  31 Jan 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Gender & personality disorder predictive of outcome of specialist inpatient treatment in people with mild learning disabilities

  11 May 2011

  • John Northfield