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People in mental health crisis who have been detained by police officers are being turned away from NHS units due to them being full to capacity or understaffed, the Care Quality Commission has found.
The regulator’s review of ‘place of safety’ units run by 56 NHS trusts and two social enterprises found that a quarter of providers admitted that their place of safety provision was ‘not sufficient’ to meet demand. More than one in 10 units said people were turned away at least once a week because they were already occupied. One in 10 units said people were turned away at least once every three months due to short staffing and almost half said they refused admission to people who were intoxicated.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2014...nough-mentally-unwell-people-detained-police/
The regulator’s review of ‘place of safety’ units run by 56 NHS trusts and two social enterprises found that a quarter of providers admitted that their place of safety provision was ‘not sufficient’ to meet demand. More than one in 10 units said people were turned away at least once a week because they were already occupied. One in 10 units said people were turned away at least once every three months due to short staffing and almost half said they refused admission to people who were intoxicated.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2014...nough-mentally-unwell-people-detained-police/