Political Protest Research - Face-Down Restraint #2

My Research -

• An account of mistreatment of a bipolar patient in a Mental hospital, due to face down restraint http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37417132 -> Jane (not her real name) was restrained face-down while being treated for bipolar disorder on a psychiatric ward. She was suicidal, and a male nurse had been assigned to watch her every move. "I got very very distressed that there was this male nurse watching me use the bathroom, use the toilet," she said. When she tried to leave her room and became upset, she was restrained. Jane was forced to the ground, her underwear removed, and she was injected in the buttocks with medication. She said: "These were large male nurses and the weight on my back was crushing my chest. "And I couldn't turn my head to the side either. "And then one of them turned my head to the side and pinned it to the side. "Your initial reaction is to struggle, not to kick anyone or to lash out but to try and move. "Someone's pinning you down, you can't breathe. "I felt like I'd been assaulted. "I felt very very very frightened. "This was nothing to do with nursing care. "Someone could have just sat and spoke to me." 
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22955917 The Northumberland, Tyne and Wear trust used face-down restraint 923 times in 2011-12. Southern Health trust, based in Southampton, used it 810 times. Between them, the two institutions account for almost half of all the face-down restraint revealed in the figures.
• When is physical restraint used in the nhs: - Healthcare staff have a duty of care to act in the patient's best interests. - Nice guidelines state that when people in hospital for mental health care need to be controlled or restrained, this should only be done by trained staff. - Restraint techniques should only be used "as a last resort, using minimum force and making sure that the person is safe" - Hospital policies typically say restraint will only be used if it is believed necessary to prevent harm to the person. - Must be proportionate to the likelihood and seriousness of harm Physical restraint involves one or more staff members holding or moving the person, or otherwise blocking their movement http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22955917
• In a report they say it is shocking that there have been 13 restraint-related deaths of people detained under the Mental Health Act since the death of David "Rocky" Bennett in 1998. Eight of those occurred in a single year (2011).  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22955917
• The case of David 'Rocky' Bennet in 1998 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4288193.stm The 

  

  David Bennet

  38-year-old collapsed in 1998 after he was held face down for 25 minutes after hitting another patient - who went on to attack and racially abuse him - and punching a female nurse.
• Mind says 39,883 incidents of physical restraint were recorded during 2011-12, with 3,000 in dangerous face-down position https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jun/19/physical-restraint-mental-health-patients
• http://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/news/mind-calls-for-end-to-life-threatening-face-down-restraint-in-mental-health-hospitals/#.WCmzyC2LSUk Data secured by Mind under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that at least 3,439 patients in England were restrained in a face down position in 2011-12, despite the increased risk of death from this kind of restraint.                                        -There were at least 39,883 recorded incidents of all kinds of physical restraint during the 12 month period, resulting in at least 949 injuries to people with mental health problems. We found huge variation between mental health trusts in the use of all types of physical restraint. Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust reported just 38 incidents over the year while Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust reported 3,346, despite the fact that physical restraint is supposed to be used as a last resort.                                                                              -We also conducted a survey of 375 frontline healthcare staff involved in physically restraining people with mental health problems. Almost a quarter (22 per cent) had not had face-to-face training on physical restraint techniques in the last 12 months and one in ten (9 per cent) said that the last time they were involved in physically restraining someone, they didn’t feel they knew what they were doing. More than four in ten (42 per cent) said that, with hindsight, they feel restraint has sometimes been used inappropriately.