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Staff in a Scots psychiatric hospital have been found to be "focussing" on their mobile phones rather than caring for patients. ‌

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) found that staff at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital were “focusing” on their mobile phones when they should have been monitoring patients being cared for in “non-standard” areas because of pressure on beds. ‌

Inspectors said the “majority of interview rooms and quiet rooms” at the hospital were being used to accommodate patients when inspectors visited, despite these rooms having furniture which “presented a ligature risk” if patients were suicidal. ‌

While hospital workers should have been carrying out “continuous interventions” with patients being cared for in these additional beds, HIS inspect

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