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Results from a recent review of reducing restrictive practice for in-patients of mental health services in the region has been published by the East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative.
Read the report.
Compiled from November 2022 to January 2023, the report looks at the improvements and innovative practice made by the six largest providers of mental health and learning disability services in the region. The report shows that improvements have been made since the last assessment, with areas of good practice identified as well as opportunities for improvement.
Reducing restrictive practice is one of the aims of the national Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme, delivered by Patient Safety Collaboratives.
Each organisation’s restraint and restrictive practice leads completed a self-assessment to determine how well the organisation is perceived to be implementing a particular strategy based on the assessor’s observations and triangulation of evidence. This created a score which was compared against the previous baseline in 2022 to demonstrate change over time.
The report considered six strategies where improvement could be made:
After two years, the average percentage of these improvement approaches being fully embedded into everyday working practice, values and culture rose from 41% to 59%.
Kay Khan, Head of Improvement Programme Delivery, said:
‘The services have been supported by the East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative to run quality improvement projects. As well as bringing them together for regular safety network meetings, we have held an annual learning and sharing event, so they can work together to share good practice.’
The patient voice continues to be strong in the workstream, ensuring involvement from point of training all the way to review of data and sharing of results with involvement of mental health services and their families.
You can find more information about our Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme here.