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"At my last place I was involved in the risk assessments - It feels more restricted here"

About: Learning Disability and Autistic Spectrum Disorder Secure (Nottingham) / Newstead

(as a staff member posting for a patient/service user),

I have been here for one and a half years. I was on low secure before and I had a lot more things. , I was able to keep my own sharps in my room as long as I locked them away. At my last place, I was involved in the risk assessments, here I am not. Everyone should have a different risk assessment.

I am waiting to move to Northampton. Getting unescorted leave is a massive thing and getting this matters to me a lot. Here unescorted is in the community. I think patients should be mixing and I have heard that they can't mx in Northampton and I am moving there soon so if this is true, I don't understand how you can prepare people if they can't mix. When you go out into the community there is a whole range of people out there. Here they don't prepare you. Here is so restrictive. It feels like I am back in prison. In prison I had remote control cars in my bedroom, here I can't have anything like this. The team don't listen to me although I have a new manager now so I am listened to better. I know where I stand with the new manager. I get frustrated because things are not consistent and I get told that I can have something, but then later they say "I never said that". Things are not explained here. I got things when I was in medium secure so why am I more restricted here? This is a low secure unit but it feels more restricted.

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Response from Modern Matron, St Andrew's Healthcare 7 years ago
Submitted on 22/01/2017 at 21:50
Published on Care Opinion on 23/01/2017 at 10:41


Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I think it is important you are involved in your whole care and treatment which includes risk management plans, as you clearly state they should be different for every patient which is correct. You do have a new nurse manager now and I will speak to the whole team regarding how you are feeling and that you feel it is really restricted.


Patients mix in all the hospitals within St Andrews with different function nights etc and I hope you enjoy the huge amount of activities that goes on within St Andrews and the Northampton site.

Good luck with your recovery.
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