CQC reveals some patients have spent a decade in seclusion

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The Care Quality Commission has called for ‘ministerial ownership’ to end the ‘inhumane’ care of patients with learning difficulties and autism in hospital – after finding some cases where people had been held in long-term segregation for more than 10 years.

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