Quality and performance

Trust using security staff for ‘inappropriate’ patient supervision

By 2026-02-20T06:59:00

Patient safety

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Security staff are being used to provide “inappropriate” patient supervision at a struggling acute trust, according to documents seen by HSJ.

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