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Basildon Mental Health Unit 2022-11-20 Person 1 5 0

If you can avoid sending your LO to psychiatric care do. They will not be treated with respect. Not every staff member is abusive but too many staff members stand by and allow it. The wards are depressing in themselves there isn’t anything to do. I have had a number of admissions and have seen the following Patients openly self harming until bleeding (staff not acting) Stay on 1:1 reading book while patient picks stitches Staff stealing from other staff and patients Poo on walls. Smell of urine Patients sleeping with each other. No care plans Shared dorms Staff bullying patients. Improper restraint- restraint then not documented. Medication inappropriately used or threatened. Patients often not treated with dignity. Personal items such as female underwear being searched in an open area by male staff in full view of other patients. The care is awful. It doesn’t really count as care. It isn’t safe. Senior management cover up issues instead of addressing them.