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RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMMUNAL DAY ROOM

Posted By RHA040154

"RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMMUNAL DAY ROOM"

About: Rampton Hospital

(as a service user),

We, the patients on Carlisle have found out today (end of January) that it will be locked off unless there are 2 staff in there which we think is rubbish because some of the patients have been on this ward for years and years and there has been no incidents of violence etc not once on Carlisle ward and it is also a low dependency moving on ward so why make things more difficult for patients and the hospital, staff, etc, now we have less privacy and less time to play games, watch DVD's, films, TV, etc etc, WHY HAS THIS HAPPENED NOW?

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Response from Keith McCoy, Care Group Nurse Director, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHs Foundation Trust last month
Keith McCoy
Care Group Nurse Director, Rampton Hospital,
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHs Foundation Trust

Submitted on 25/02/2025 at 16:10
Published on Care Opinion at 16:27

Thank you for raising this. Carlisle is indeed a great ward with respectful patients and hard working staff. I don't believe this is because of anything to do with patient behavior in any way.

I have asked a colleague of mine to engage with people from the ward to ascertain if this is the best way to keep the ward safe, and if so to explain why.

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Update posted by RHA040154 (a service user)

if anything it reduces security on the ward as we spend more time stirring in our rooms becoming more unstable and if the day room has to be manned by two staff why not the long quiet corridors where all our rooms are which is more of a risk because if someone follows a patient into their rooms and etc etc etc happens nobody would know or hear as its way further away from the office/staff than the day room?? where as the day room is near the ward managers office and they would be alerted by a shout etc and there are plenty of cameras in there etc etc, it just does not make sense and if you examine what I say then the must secure the corridors with two extra staff to make sense of closing off the day room if two staff are not able to man it etc

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