Abstract

21 Suicides at “Admirable” Hospital: Warlingham Park Report Blames “Desperate” Staff Shortage

Year: 1976 Source: Nursing Times, v.72, (July 22 1976), p.1104 SIEC No: 19850770

This is a brief article from Nursing Times, July 22, 1974, quoting results of an inquiry into 21 suicides by hospital patients during the period March 1974 to July 1975. Staff shortages overshadow all the Committee’s detailed recommendations on the management of the potentially suicidal. (NBB)