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Southern District Health Board fails to end use of seclusion

Southern District Health Board fails to end use of seclusion 30 Dec, 2020 07:53 PM 3 minutes to read A report by the Health Quality and Safety Commission said seclusion had negative outcomes for both patients and mental health staff. Photo / 123RF Otago Daily Times More than 200 people have been placed in seclusion by Southern mental health services in the past three years, despite calls for the practice to be done away with by 2020. Figures released by the Southern District Health Board (SDHB) showed that 223 mental health patients were placed in seclusion defined as a room from which the sole patient is unable to exit over the past three years, across the range of inpatient mental health services.

Children s Commissioner pushes for closure of large care and protection residences

Children s Commissioner pushes for closure of large care and protection residences © RNZ / Meriana Johnsen The Children s Commissioner has backed a call for the closure of New Zealand s large care and protection residences and the eventual abolition of the four youth justice detention centres. It comes after a report for the Human Rights Commission found that the use of seclusion in the youth justice residences reviewed had doubled since 2016, while seclusion in the care and protection residences reviewed had declined slightly. © RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly It is a follow-up to a previous report in 2017 by the same author, Dr Sharon Shalev, which was followed by a set of recommendations.

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