{"id":231341,"date":"2025-10-22T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231341\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:33:08","slug":"st-andrews-healthcare-patients-in-northampton-prefer-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231341\/","title":{"rendered":"St Andrew&#8217;s Healthcare patients in Northampton &#8216;prefer prison&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two patients told the CQC that they wanted to go back to prison &#8220;as it&#8217;s better than here&#8221; and wanted to be transferred to other providers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One patient had requested to return to prison due to their concerns regarding care and treatment&#8221;, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some staff said they had &#8220;continuously raised concerns about staffing levels and patient risk, however, they had not been listened to&#8221;, according to the findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were a high number of incidents&#8221;, it said, with the total number reported across all wards between September 2024 and the following March standing at 7,752.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some patients said they were bored, with activities and leave cancelled due to staff shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dirty toilets, damaged flooring, stained sinks and damaged walls were also noted in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two patients told the CQC that they wanted to go back to prison &#8220;as it&#8217;s better than here&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-231341","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\/231341","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=231341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}