The problem is when you are in it and express concerns, they are always brushed off as illusions you are going through.

Sleeping when getting paid to stay awake. Very sad.

The team and management should be held accountable and fined.  Lessons need to be learned  from this'

Don't do night shifts if you can't do it. All staffs involved needs sacking.

I am so sadden that our metal care system has these awful failures, it bought back memories of the Shelton Mental Health Hospital fire in which my grandmother died in the 60's and I had hoped things would be better now. My deepest sympathy to all the family and friends.

Where were the security staff? An institution like this should always have trained security staff.

How did they sleep? I’m guessing quite well. Paid sleep just hits different.

I feel mental wards are extremely dangerous (sometimes) proper staff is essential

This lack of care is widespread across the NHS, but people refuse to believe it. Be that turning off alarms, snapping at or threatening elderly patients, patients stalking other patients in wards, not spending enough time with patients and more… There needs to be through investigation of the NHS!

Who wants to bet you can trace it back to severe defunding in the last 14 years

What do we expect when mental health has always been seen as second in healthcare? Staff are undertrained and underpaid. More importantly, the government need to look at PREVENTATIVES rather firefighting I.e. funding therapy and charities to do more to avoid people going into crisis in the first place. Besides, mental health impacts physical health vice versa and thus putting more pressure on the NHS.

I think expecting mental-health staff to keep vulnerable patients safe while simultaneously allowing them to roam freely in the middle of the night is an absurd contradiction. Lock the doors, and suddenly it’s a breach of human rights. Leave them unlocked, and staff are apparently responsible for whatever happens next. If patients hurt one another, it’s the staff’s fault. If someone takes their own life, it’s the staff’s fault. If someone self-harms, it’s the staff’s fault. And if staff physically intervene to prevent someone from seriously hurting themselves or others, that somehow becomes the staff’s fault too.

The expectations are completely unrealistic: take responsibility for every possible outcome, prevent every conceivable incident, but don’t restrict anyone’s freedom and don’t make a mistake while doing it. And for all of that responsibility, risk and abuse, staff are expected to accept wages that barely reflect the seriousness of the job. Asking people to carry that level of responsibility for minimum wage isn’t just unreasonable, it’s a disgrace

It's an incredibly difficult problem to solve. Finding people who are highly motivated to work with psychiatric patients is already a challenge. Keeping them motivated is just as difficult, especially if funding and staffing is already an issue.

The NHS are constantly failing people with mental health. I’ve been in the system since i was between 9-13years old i’m now 30 and it’s done nothing but get worse and worse over the years and they just pass u from person to person, from department to department with the threat of sectioning u always hanging over your head if things get bad . But u always end up right back in the same place u started anyways and they wonder why people just stop seeking “help”

I worked state hospital, it’s always understaffed, especially on the weekend. Also, they do shift work too, and it’s under staffed constantly . The pay is lousy too.

lack of senior management

Why are mental patients allowed to walk freely?

100% health care workers are at fault for not doing their job. Sleeping on the job. Falsified records.

But mental patients need to have their rooms locked at night when no health workers are observing them.

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Please Tell Me Those So Called Mental Health Professionals/Nurses In Charge Are No Longer Caring For Another Being Other Than Themselves, There Needs To Be Repercussion Accountability & Consequences To Their Gross Derelict Of Duty, Standards Have Gone Down On All British Services & Institutes

R.I.P. Hugo. Rest in Peace from your Tormentors and the country and it's people which inflicted it on you.

I totally get being relieved when he was sectioned, not strange at all. You think they’re safe so you can breathe for a bit. It’s hard on families too and in my experience there’s not much, if any, support for families of the severely mentally ill. 😢