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cant quantify care or safety

this is the report by the cqc into the hospital where my stepdaughter is but a letter recieved today from the cqc-stated they had looked into complaints but found nothing wrong--that is not what there own inspection and report says 

We saw that the new J unit had been operational since June 2011. This was the
first medium secure unit that had been provided by this hospital. The ward manager
explained that none of the unit staff or managers had previous experience of medium
secure units.On the J unit the activity staff post was vacant. People said, "The staff try and do
as many activities as possible, like board games. We make things, like Christmas trees
and Halloween hats. An art man comes in and we go on the Wii. But what interests
me is outdoors. You don't get the chance to go out much at stage one".
We saw from restraint records that of 141 highest level restraints carried out in the
J unit since it opened in June 2011, 92 had occurred between 5pm and
midnight. This may indicate a lack of diversionary activities for the young people staying
here.
In addition to this, most people did not have access to their rooms. The manager told us
that people liked to watch different TV programmes, but because of the locked
bedrooms and lack of individual TVs some people could not watch what they wanted.
Our judgementOverall P Hwas not meeting this essential standard
because it did not always provide appropriate care, treatment and support that met the
needs and protected the rights of people using the service.
What people who use the service experienced and told usOn two of the three wards we visited people said that they generally felt "safe".
One person said he felt nervous being alone in areas where staff were not around. He
said that he had never been verbally or physically abused by other patients, but he felt
vulnerable at times.
On one ward people commented: "Staff take you to seclusion to calm you down.
Sometimes you are asked to walk in and staff shut the door but they don't lock it."
"I feel safe sometimes. Staff sometimes help. Sometimes I'm led into seclusion,
sometimes I'm asked to go in."
One person said, "I don't feel safe because of the young ones."
Another person said, "I would feel able to talk to (the manager of the ward) if I had to
make complaints about the staff attitude."
All four of the staff we spoke with on J unit felt that the staff levels meant that
they "struggled" to get safely through a shift. All staff on this unit told us they felt
"unsafe".
One staff said, "Motivation is very poor. The hospital doesn't understand why we keep
saying we need more staff. I don't feel safe. We have potentially dangerous people on
this ward. There have been assaults on staff."
(Shortly the inspection the J unit told us it was planning to change the type of
treatment on the J unit to a recovery programme. The ward manager felt this
would also have a positive impact on the number of staff required to support people on
this unit.)
Our judgementOverall did not meet this essential standard. This
was because staffing levels on one unit had not been kept under review to meet the
changing needs of people.

MEDICATION: ho boy

MEDICATION: ho boy: life in a hospital for mental healt conditions is far from easy especially for borderline personality disorder sufferers---because of the na...

ho boy

life in a hospital for mental healt conditions is far from easy especially for borderline personality disorder sufferers---because of the nature and components of bpd very few hospitals have a good treatment rate/

i intend to show an actual sufferers treatment on a daily basis purely factual.

Real Disease vs. Mental “Disorder”

Psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases. There are no lab tests, brain scans, X-rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder is a physical condition.  This is not to say that people do not get depressed, or that people can’t experience emotional or mental duress, but psychiatry has repackaged these emotions and behaviors as “disease” in order to sell drugs. This is a brilliant marketing campaign, but it is not science.
“…modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness…Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and…there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.” —Dr. David Kaiser, psychiatrist
“There’s no biological imbalance. When people come to me and they say, ‘I have a biochemical imbalance,’ I say, ‘Show me your lab tests.’ There are no lab tests. So what’s the biochemical imbalance?” —Dr. Ron Leifer, psychiatrist
“All psychiatrists have in common that when they are caught on camera or on microphone, they cower and admit that there are no such things as chemical imbalances/diseases, or examinations or tests for them. What they do in practice, lying in every instance, abrogating [revoking] the informed consent right of every patient and poisoning them in the name of ‘treatment’ is nothing short of criminal.” —Dr. Fred Baughman Jr., Pediatric Neurologist
“Psychiatry makes unproven claims that depression, bipolar illness, anxiety, alcoholism and a host of other disorders are in fact primarily biologic and probably genetic in origin…This kind of faith in science and progress is staggering, not to mention naïve and perhaps delusional.” —Dr. David Kaiser, psychiatrist
While “there has been no shortage of alleged biochemical explanations for psychiatric conditions…not one has been proven. Quite the contrary. In every instance where such an imbalance was thought to have been found, it was later proven false.” —Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist
“The theories are held on to not only because there is nothing else to take their place, but also because they are useful in promoting drug treatment.” —Dr. Elliott Valenstein Ph.D., author of Blaming the Brain
“There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases. If such a test were developed…then the condition would cease to be a mental illness and would be classified, instead, as a symptom of a bodily disease.” —Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School, Syracuse
“I believe, until the public and psychiatry itself see that DSM labels are not only useless as medical ‘diagnoses’ but also have the potential to do great harm—particularly when they are used as means to deny individual freedoms, or as weapons by psychiatrists acting as hired guns for the legal system.” —Dr. Sydney Walker III, psychiatrist
“No biochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have been found for Attention Deficit Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression, Schizophrenia, anxiety, compulsive alcohol and drug abuse, overeating, gambling or any other so-called mental illness, disease, or disorder.” —Bruce Levine, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Commonsense Rebellion
“Unlike medical diagnoses that convey a probable cause, appropriate treatment and likely prognosis, the disorders listed in DSM-IV are terms arrived at through peer consensus.” —Tana Dineen Ph.D., Canadian psychologist

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