Pregnant Counsellor Admitted Sex With Patient
A psychologist who did counselling work at a mental health unit has been given a 12 month suspended prison sentence after she admitted having a sexual relationship with a patient.
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A psychologist who did counselling work at a mental health unit has been given a 12 month suspended prison sentence after she admitted having a sexual relationship with a patient.
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More than half of nurses on mental health wards have been physically attacked, a survey suggests.
Nurses working with older people are the most likely to be assaulted, the joint Healthcare Commission and Royal College of Psychiatrists report said.
The study of 69 NHS trusts and private hospitals in England and Wales said patients had also been attacked and more had to be done to stop violence.
Health bosses said the situation was taken “very seriously”. The audit covered eight in 10 of the organisations providing in-patient care for the 30,000 mental health patients in England and Wales.
Nurses, doctors, visitors and patients were all asked about whether they had suffered attacks, threats and what could be done about it.
Some 46% of nurses in mental health wards for working age patients said they had been assaulted. For those working in older people’s wards this rose to 64%.
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