A lack of staff and hospital beds, at a time of “overwhelming demand”, is leading to “harmful” gaps in mental healthcare, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. As a result, people were being ...

During the inspection, CQC found five breaches of regulations in relation to safeguarding people from abuse, safe care and treatment, medicines management, staffing, and how well the home was being ...

In the CQC's report, it said: “People’s care plans did not always have clear, consistent and up to date information to enable staff to support people appropriately. "Risks to people’s safety ...

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structure to the day and aid their recovery. Without these, patients tell us how this leads to boredom and could, in turn, lead to patient-on-staff violence, patient-on-patient aggression or self-harm ...

Those who work, train and learn within the healthcare system have the right to be safe and feel supported at work. Organisations across the healthcare system need to work together and individually to ...