'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Patient restraint positions in a psychiatric inpatient service
Physical intervention on psychiatric inpatient units remains a highly controversial ethical issue. The recent highly publicised inquiry into the death of David ‘Rocky’ Bennett (Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Special Health Authority, 2003) and the recommendations that were generated from it have again thrown the use of restraint into sharp focus for health care staff.
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