Unstimulating ward environment
Mental health wards having dreary, unstimulating environments that contribute to patient boredom and impact recovery.
4 items
1 source
3 inquiries
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Unstimulating ward environment has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
4 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (4)
27 — Co-ordinate occupational services
Recommendation: All occupational services, including industrial therapy, should be effectively co-ordinated under the aegis of a professional Resocialisation Group. They should be expanded, with the emphasis on industrial therapy, to provide activities for all patients who can make use of them.
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R100 — Person-centred day activities and supported employment
Recommendation: Trusts, private and 3rd sector care providers must ensure that person-centred day activities (including supported employment where appropriate) should be available and offered to all people with learning disabilities and autistic people. This should be monitored through Trust delivery plans.
No response yet
R11 — Meaningful daily activities
Recommendation: Like anyone else, people with learning disabilities and autistic people require a variety of meaningful activities on a daily basis to enhance their quality of life. Every person should have an individualised activity schedule, including leisure activities and skill-building activities, …
No response yet
BAHA-13 — Segregation and Sight Deprivation
Recommendation: In dealing with segregation, JDP 1-10 should make clear that sight deprivation should not be used as a means of segregating CPERS to prevent them communicating with each other.
Words of: Liam Fox, Secretary of State for Defence, statement to the House of Commons, 8 September 2011 (HC Deb vol 532 col 571), as published by the Ministry of Defence
Gov response: I can inform this House that I am accepting in principle all of his recommendations with one reservation.
Accepted in part