{"id":428214,"date":"2026-05-06T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428214\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:33:07","slug":"people-restrained-too-often-at-swindon-and-oxford-mental-health-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428214\/","title":{"rendered":"People &#8216;restrained too often&#8217; at Swindon and Oxford mental health units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two patients from Meadow Unit at Warneford Hospital said staff sometimes threatened to restrain them, while two patients at Highfield and Marlborough House reported negative experiences during restraint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspectors also found staff did not ensure patients were monitored after they had been tranquilised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said the 10 patients they spoke to across the wards did not feel involved in their care plans and said they were too generic or did not reflect their wishes. Two said they felt punished if they did not comply, the CQC reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In terms of the areas which the trust was rated as &#8220;good&#8221;, the range of care and treatment options available included accessing specialists, time to exercise and opportunities for music, nature and animal therapy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC also found patients were supported by an experienced, qualified team with the right skills and knowledge to meet their needs and staff treated young people with dignity and respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two patients from Meadow Unit at Warneford Hospital said staff sometimes threatened to restrain them, while two patients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-428214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}