Camden and Islington Trust Restraint Debrief Service

Background and context

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines [NG10] Violence and aggression: short-term management in mental health, health and community settings and [CG136] Service user experience in adult mental health: improving the experience of care for people using adult NHS mental health services state that debriefings should occur after the use of a restrictive intervention to manage aggression in inpatient psychiatric settings. The debriefings allow issues of physical harm and the emotional impact on service users (SU’s) or staff following a restrictive intervention to be addressed and on-going risks to be identified and managed.