Involuntary psychiatric admissions are a significant aspect of mental health care, often used in situations where individuals are deemed a danger to themselves or others. This practice raises ...

This study is the first to analyse national trends in mental health admissions of children and young people to acute medical wards. As the study looked at admissions of up to 18 years of age ...

The number of young people admitted to general wards in English hospitals for mental health problems rose by 65% in 2012-22, researchers have found. In the study, published in Lancet Child and ...

Here, Katie describes the reality of being admitted to a psych ward for Christmas. On Christmas Eve 2017, I called my best friend and asked her to come and see me. I had been in the depths of an ...

“Things have to get a lot worse before they decide to help you,” one patient reveals to Stacey Dooley during On The Psych Ward. “And, by the time things are worse, you don’t actually want ...

Saliu Oseni, has said the secondary health facility has built a 10-bed psychiatric ward to address the challenge of admission spaces for patients with mental illnesses in the state. Oseni said the ...

She spent several weeks in a psychiatric ward in 2006 before finally being ... for example—but if they don’t meet admission criteria set by hospitals, state regulatory boards, or insurance ...

Research looked at all admissions for five to 18-year-olds to general acute medical wards in England from 2012 to 2022.