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Helping health and care services manage difficult patient behaviour

New advice for staff on the use of restrictive interventions for patients with difficult behaviour.

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Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions (summary of key actions)application/pdf Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventionsapplication/pdf How health and care services should support people whose behaviour is very difficult (easy read)application/pdf

At a glance

TypePolicy paper

First published03 Apr 2014

Last updated03 Apr 2014

Organisations

Department of Health and Social Care

Topics

Patient safetyMental health service reformCompassionate care in the NHSDementia

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