They should be named and shamed. Hope they enjoy the guilt of this every day for the rest of there life’s
This is such a clear error.
I work on a rehab mental health ward and even though it’s not acute or secure like the ward it sounds like Beth was on we have measures in place
Patients are well within their rights to order parcels to the ward but they *must* be opened with staff to check for safety/contraband etc.
Any items that are possibly dangerous are put in a locked cupboard. For example if a patient wants to get fit and orders a skipping rope it’s locked away and supervised access or signed in and out because it’s a clear ligature risk. If a patient orders alcohol or similar, it’s confiscated.
I don’t know what substance she ordered or if it was disguised but someone should have clapped eyes on it before she had unsupervised access to it.
It’s a basic rule and cases like this just reinforce it’s importance
While very sad, I have a fairly different view – this poor girl wanted to die and had attempted several times before. d Let the poor girl, and others who are suffering, end their life on their own terms.
Being a prisoner in a mental health unit, never seeing her loved ones, having tribunals rejected time after time is no way to live. Plus the pain she was in from her previous suicide attempts. It’s no quality of life.
Euthanasia and the right to die cannot come quick enough in my opinion.
Late to the party…
I worked for the priory group from October 2016 until mid 2018. We were overworked, thread bare staffed and badly trained. My training lasted 2 days, I was working on a ward with sectioned teenage girls by myself within 2 weeks.
Fuck the priory group.
Often when you order substances online the seller sends them in good ‘stealth’ perhaps a pen or a dvd case so that if the postal service or someone else intercepts them they go unnoticed.
Fundamentally it is not possible to stop someone killing themselves whether in or out of a unit. Anyone motivated enough will always find a way.
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They should be named and shamed. Hope they enjoy the guilt of this every day for the rest of there life’s
This is such a clear error.
I work on a rehab mental health ward and even though it’s not acute or secure like the ward it sounds like Beth was on we have measures in place
Patients are well within their rights to order parcels to the ward but they *must* be opened with staff to check for safety/contraband etc.
Any items that are possibly dangerous are put in a locked cupboard. For example if a patient wants to get fit and orders a skipping rope it’s locked away and supervised access or signed in and out because it’s a clear ligature risk. If a patient orders alcohol or similar, it’s confiscated.
I don’t know what substance she ordered or if it was disguised but someone should have clapped eyes on it before she had unsupervised access to it.
It’s a basic rule and cases like this just reinforce it’s importance
While very sad, I have a fairly different view – this poor girl wanted to die and had attempted several times before. d Let the poor girl, and others who are suffering, end their life on their own terms.
Being a prisoner in a mental health unit, never seeing her loved ones, having tribunals rejected time after time is no way to live. Plus the pain she was in from her previous suicide attempts. It’s no quality of life.
Euthanasia and the right to die cannot come quick enough in my opinion.
Late to the party…
I worked for the priory group from October 2016 until mid 2018. We were overworked, thread bare staffed and badly trained. My training lasted 2 days, I was working on a ward with sectioned teenage girls by myself within 2 weeks.
Fuck the priory group.
Often when you order substances online the seller sends them in good ‘stealth’ perhaps a pen or a dvd case so that if the postal service or someone else intercepts them they go unnoticed.
Fundamentally it is not possible to stop someone killing themselves whether in or out of a unit. Anyone motivated enough will always find a way.