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This virtual conference will focus on reducing restrictive interventions in line with national guidance and the Care Quality Commission Progress Report on Restraint, Segregation and Seclusion review. The conference will also update delegates on practical steps to reduce restrictive practice, implement the CQC recommendations, and bring you up to date on legal developments including the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act.
Nobody wants to receive care or work on a ward with high levels of restrictive practice, they are stressful and unpleasant places for everyone to be.
Issues around workforce retention and staffing shortages remain the greatest challenge for the mental health sector…Understaffing can affect the safety of patients and staff, with a lack of therapeutic interventions leading to an increased risk of violence and aggression on the wards… We have also seen the effect of staffing shortages on services’ ability to follow least restrictive practices.
Restrictive interventions are often a major contribution to delaying recovery, and have been linked with causing serious trauma, both physical and psychological, to people who use services and to staff…A number of recent studies have shown that it is possible to achieve significant reductions in the use of restrictive interventions.
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to reduce and improve the use of restrictive interventions in practice
- Reflect on the lived experience of people who have experienced restraint and how you can work with them to improve practice
- Understand how to engage people to reduce anxiety and improve coping strategies
- Update your knowledge national developments including the recommendations from the 2022 CQC Progress Report on Restraint, segregation and seclusion review
- Understand what restraint is and what it is not
- Improve your skills in the anticipation, de-escalation and prevention of violence and aggression
- Develop a quality improvement approach to reducing violence in your service
- Understand how to work in partnership with police, and the police role in restraint
- Work with people with lived experience to better train and educate frontline staff
- Understand new legal developments including the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act and Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Develop effective post incident debriefing
- Identify key strategies for reducing restraint and reducing harm from all kinds of restraint
- Self-assess and reflect on your own practice
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
100% of delegates at our last conference on this subject would recommend the conference to a colleague
