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Huge surge in hospitals using ...

Hospitals’ use of restraint on adults with learning disabilities rose by almost 50 per cent between 2016 and 2017. A BBC File on 4 investigation found that in 2016 hospitals in England used restrain ...

‘Scandal’ of epilepsy drug ...

Women given an epilepsy drug were victims of an “extraordinary scandal”, says an MP. Former care minister Norman Lamb says anti-epilepsy drug sodium valproate has done “incalculable damage” to ...

Centre pins patients face down ...

A mental health centre subjected people with autism and learning disabilities to face-down restraint 600 times in just six months. Channel 4 revealed the figures in a Dispatches television documenta ...

Lamb distressed at face-down r ...

People with autism on mental health wards in England are still being subjected to face-down restraint. The revelation has come two years after a former Government minister announced measures to end th ...

Parents forced to launch petit ...

Parents are highlighting the inadequacy of the UK’s mental health service by starting online petitions to force professionals to provide better care for their loved ones. Described in 2014 as ‘not ...

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Huge surge in hospitals using ...

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