Our impact
Since its inception in 2018, participating wards have had numerous success stories.
Wards have been testing over 300 change ideas since the Reducing Restrictive Practice Collaborative started and by February 2020 those ideas resulted in 24 out of 38 wards seeing reductions ranging from 25% to 100% in one or more measure of restrictive practice (number of physical restraints, seclusions and rapid tranquillisation episodes).
Over 18 months, there has been a 15% reduction in the overall use of restrictive practices among the 38 wards participating in the Reducing Restrictive Practice Collaborative.
Article in British Journal of Healthcare Management
, written by the QI team, and published in May 2022:
Amar Shah, Tom Ayers, Emily Cannon, Saiqa Akhtar, Kate Lorrimer, Matthew Milarski, Laura-Louise Arundell. The mental health safety improvement programme: a national quality improvement collaborative to reduce restrictive practice in England. British Journal of Healthcare Management. Published Online: 6 May 2022. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2021.0159.
In the media
- – Jessica Brown, The Independent, 19 December 2020
- – Thomas Parkes, Express & Star, 9 September 2020
- – Emily Liddell, Southern Daily Echo, 7 September 2020
- Mental health unit reduces its restrictive practices – Basingstoke Observer, 3 September 2020
- – Katie Dickinson, Chronicle Live, 2 September 2020
- – Holly Chant, Hackney Gazette, 2 September 2020
- – Emily Liddell, Southern Daily Echo, 23 September 2019
- – Ben Butler, Lancashire Telegraph, 23 September 2019
- Harsh restrictive practices reduced in Enfield mental health ward – Joseph Reaidi, ; ; , 21 September 2019
- Mental health units dramatically cut use of restrictive practices – Press release by the 免费黑料网, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, 24 September 2019
- – Robyn Vinter, The Yorkshire Post, 18 September 2019
- (at 34 min) – You and Yours, BBC Radio 4, 18 September 2019
- Reducing restrictive practices – RCPsych Insight, p. 15, April 2019
- – Health, BBC News, 13 March 2019
- (at 24 min, 50 secs) – You and Yours, BBC Radio 4, 27 February 2019
- – Greg Hurst, The Times, 11 January 2019