Mental health patient seclusion to be scrapped after scathing UN condemnationOMBUDSMAN REPORT A seclusion room at Taranaki Hospital's Te Puna Waiora mental health unit in 2016. READ MORE:* Inside Wellington's forensic mental health units* Long-term mental health patient Ashley Peacock being released* Still awaiting a seclusion conclusionMore than 800 adult mental health patients and 102 young people were held in seclusion at some point in 2016 according to the latest Director of Mental Health's Annual Report. OMBUDSMAN REPORT A seclusion room at the Waiatarau mental health inpatient unit at Waitakere Hospital in 2016. SUPPLIED The Ombudsman called the use of seclusion with Ashley Peacock, a mental health patient in a secure unit at Porirua Hospital, degrading. OMBUDSMAN REPORT A seclusion room at Auckland's He Puna Waiora mental health unit in 2016.

Source: Stuff December 22, 2017 07:23 UTC