Mental health services for children and young people at a hospital have been criticised following a watchdog inspection. Care for children and young people at Cheadle Royal Hospital, also known as the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal, has been rated 'inadequate' following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The regulator carried out an unannounced inspection amid ‘concerns about safety’. The inspection followed the deaths of three young women within weeks of each other at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal, but it is not known if it was triggered by them.
Mental health blogger Beth Matthews, 26, Lauren Bridges, 20, and Deseree Fitzpatrick, 30, all died at the psychiatric hospital last year - although their deaths are not thought to be linked. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community During the January inspection, breaches were found in relation to the 'safe care and treatment'; 'premises and equipment'; 'systems'; and 'staffing' categories at child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) services.
The findings, published on Friday, reveal that high levels of restraint were being used at the facility, that the health of patients was not being monitored after tranquilisation, nor were side-effects of medications being looked at.
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