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This virtual conference will focus on reducing restrictive interventions in line with national guidance and the March 2022 Care Quality Commission Progress Report on Restraint, segregation and seclusion review. The recent report found that not enough progress has been made in reducing the use of restraint and stated that none of the CQC recommendations from Out of sight – who cares? (2020) have been fully achieved. 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 December 2021 Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act.
“There must be renewed attempts to reduce restrictive practice by all health and social care providers, commissioners and others. We have seen too many examples of inappropriate restrictions that could have been avoided. We know in absolute emergencies this may be necessary, but we want to be clear – it should not be seen as a way to care for someone.”
“We saw how frightening it could be for people to be restrained, which could lead to them resisting and injuring staff. However, providers did not always recognise how distressing the use of restraint and other restrictive practices could be for people. They also did not recognise the long-term impact of being in restrained, secluded or segregated. People told us that the more they were restricted in hospital, the harder they found it to recover.”
“Not enough progress has been made to address the recommendations made by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in its 2020 ‘Out of sight – who cares?’ restraint, segregation, and seclusion review. In a progress report published today, CQC finds that there are still too many people in hospital. Once in hospital they often stay too long, do not always experience therapeutic care and are still subject to 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 during Covid-19
- 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
