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The so-called ‘specialist’ care units that swallow up vital NHS funds
A new report highlights how patients are being moved ‘out of area’ to private-sector units at massive cost and with minimal evidence of improvement to health. RUTH HUNT reports
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A REPORT from the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) highlights the problematic practice of moving patients out-of-area to so-called “specialist” personality disorder residential units in the private sector, with massive costs and no oversight, that could be better diverted to improve local NHS mental health services.
Far too many patients on mental health wards who have the contentious catch-all diagnosis of borderline personality disorder are still being moved hundreds of miles away into residential and sometimes locked placements in the private sector they are told are “specialist” personality disorder units.
Concern about this practice has been raised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Rethink, among other organisations.
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