The comments of Professor Dinesh Bhurga, the new president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, have provoked a stream of articles in The Observer (29 June 2008).
Many in-patient units are overcrowded, uninhabitable and unsafe he says: "I would not use them and neither would I let any of my relatives do so."
"You don't go into hospital to get hurt, but that's what's happening. There are too many wards that are not safe, which is the one thing these most vulnerable of people should be able to rely on them to be. We would not accept these conditions, any of these conditions, in surgical wards so why is it happening in psychiatric wards?"
Other articles worth a read in The Observer today include:
* The mental health units that shame the NHS
* Mental illness must be taken from the shadows (Editorial)
* 'I decided I'd rather die than go back into that ward' (Personal account)
* 'People need a feeling of safety in their place of refuge' (Interview with Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of mental health charity, Sane)
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