{"id":199757,"date":"2025-10-09T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/199757\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:10:09","slug":"cqc-says-kent-patients-detained-beyond-time-permitted-by-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/199757\/","title":{"rendered":"CQC says Kent patients &#8216;detained beyond time permitted by law&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC downgraded the rating for the mental health crisis services from &#8220;good&#8221; to &#8220;requires improvement&#8221; after the March inspection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to its report, trust staff &#8220;did not always demonstrate the duty of candour and apologise&#8221; when patients were detained longer than legally permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managers claimed &#8220;a lack of availability of inpatient beds and wider system pressures&#8221; caused delays, inspectors wrote, but &#8220;did not have a reporting mechanism for this&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People can be detained in a place of safety for up to 24 hours pending an assessment if they appear to have a mental disorder and authorities believe it&#8217;s necessary on safety grounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/mental-health\/social-care-and-your-rights\/mental-health-and-the-law\/mental-health-act\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the NHS, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC found centres at St Martin&#8217;s Hospital in Canterbury and Littlebrook Hospital in Dartford did not give users &#8220;direct access to outside space and fresh air&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at assessment centres were &#8220;unaware&#8221; of translator services and used Google translate instead, inspectors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CQC downgraded the rating for the mental health crisis services from &#8220;good&#8221; to &#8220;requires improvement&#8221; after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-199757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}