June 15th, 2015
A&E staff attitudes to patients in mental health crisis ‘often shocking’
A&E staff are often unsympathetic to patients suffering a mental health crisis and judgmental about injuries they have inflicted on themselves, the NHS watchdog has said in a recent report. Unhelpful attitudes amongdoctors and nurses towards people having delusions or panic attacks or contemplating suicide compounds their mental distress, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found.
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