Locked inpatient units are an increasing phenomenon, introduced in response to unforseen
abscondences and suicides of patients. This paper identifies some value issues concerning …

Many acute inpatient psychiatric wards in the UK are permanently locked, although this is
contrary to the current Mental Health Act Code of Practice. To conduct a literature review of …

The Queensland Government issued a policy directive to lock all acute adult public mental
health inpatient wards in 2013. Despite criticism from professional bodies and advocacy for …

The practice of locking acute ward doors in the UK to manage patient care has been
reported with increasing frequency in a number of recent official documents; however, there …

A recent decision by the Queensland government to lock its 16 mental health inpatient
facilities has met with condemnation by a number of professional bodies. This column …

The principles of least restrictive care and recovery‐focused practice are promoted as
contemporary practice in the care of individuals with mental ill health, underpinning …

Aims and objective. To describe nurses' and mental health nurse assistants' perceptions of
advantages and disadvantages about working on a psychiatric ward with a locked entrance …

A postal questionnaire survey of intensive care units/locked wards in Scottish psychiatric
hospitals revealed a lack of structural security features (other than a locked door) and an …

Background Seclusion is an invasive clinical intervention used in inpatient psychiatric wards
as a continuation of milieu therapy with vast behavioural implications that raise many ethical …

Accessible summary• Locking of psychiatric wards doors is more frequent, but the impact is
unknown.• Staff patients and visitors returned a questionnaire about the issue.• Patients did …