CQC recommends independent mental health review
At the end of 2018, Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, asked the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to look at the use of restrictive interventions in places that provide care for people with mental health problems, a learning disability and/or autism.
Their interim report focuses on people who are cared for in segregation on a learning disability ward or a mental health ward for children and young people. The report shares findings from visits to 35 wards where they assessed the care of 39 people.
The CQC made a number of recommendations including an independent and in-depth review of the care provided to, and the discharge plan for, each person who mis in segregation on a ward for children and young people or on a ward for people with a learning disability and/or autism.
