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Lewys Beames

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Consultant Mental Health Nurse in Restrictive Practice at South London and Maudsley | PhD Student at King’s College London

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Thanks for sharing Martin. Hope all is good with you too! Be good to catch up and hear how your project is going.

15.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My Week of Denial and Disorientation: A Lived Experience Narrative of a Stay in a Psychiatric Emergency Department Background Psychiatric emergency departments (EDs) are common settings in which patients receive crisis care, yet their experiences in these environments remain understudied. Aim This lived experi...

📣New article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

17.04.2025 09:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seni's Law: preventing deaths from restraint in mental health settings | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing After disproportionate force during restraint led to Seni’s death, his mum Aji made it her mission to protect mental health service users

www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/Pe...

17.04.2025 09:07 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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❓Have you or someone you know experienced #restraint on a #mentalhealth ward❓

We’re working to improve support for those impacted by coercive practices. Help us make a difference.

See the poster 👇 for more info.
And register here: forms.office.com/e/xyHs346P3F

09.01.2025 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: Qualitative systematic review of international literature Trauma has a well-established link with poor health outcomes. Adverse experiences in mental health inpatient settings contribute to such outcomes and …

Sharing our review that suggests traumatic experiences in mental health inpatient settings - and far more insidious than just restrictive interventions - can worsen outcomes. We urge redesign of environment, processes and autonomy to improve care.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

18.12.2024 20:25 — 👍 14    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
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Coercive practices (e.g. physical restraint) on mental health wards can have lasting harmful effects for service users.

Service user, carer or inpatient staff member?
Share your views and help shape the support available after restraint.

More info. 👇
forms.office.com/e/xyHs346P3F

17.12.2024 10:25 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah only in the UK this time. Thanks Martin.

12.12.2024 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mental health service users often report an absence of support after experiencing coercive practices (e.g. restraint) on mental health wards.

We want to change this.

Help shape support for service users exposed to restraint. More information here:
forms.office.com/e/xyHs346P3F

11.12.2024 15:48 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Culturally appropriate care and reduction of restrictive practices in mental health Click on the article title to read more.

Certain ethnic minorities are at a greater risk of receiving restrictive practices than those from ethnic majoritet populations.

Ensuring culturally appropriate care at all stages of mental health care may help reduce such ethnic disparities.

27.11.2024 09:24 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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