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Basildon Mental Health Unit
2022-11-20
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Written by a NHS patient
Written by a NHS patient 20th November 2022
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.