Mill View Hospital

Reply from Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:53:46 Z

Hello I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for sending us this heart felt message. I know from my daily conversations with both Regency and Crisis team that they will always do everything in their power to ensure that everyone receives world class support and that certainly sounds the case from your post. Take care and always know if you need to come in for a coffee or a chat either myself, The Crisis Team or Regency ward will always have time to listen. Best wishes Mark Pattison Clinical Lead Nurse Manager Mill View Hospital Sussex Partnership foundation Trust

1. It is a clean environment, and unlike some hospitals consultants and other staff are not quick to enforce or even allow strong or addictive medications like benzodiazepines or accufaze. This is generally a good thing except when patients are literally going out of their mind with stress and anxiety in which case a small one off dose of benzodiazepine may be useful. 2. Like many hospitals this one gives absolutely no weight to a patients desire not to be medicated. Sometimes a patient will be either strongly persuaded or even forced to take medication against their will even when this is not strictly necessary. I was able to refuse life saving treatment for a paracetamol overdose to the point that I nearly died, yet I was not allowed to refuse treatment when I was admitted to a mental hospital after this episode. The treatment in the mental hospital had more horrific side effects and consequences then the suicide attempt itself. 3. Psychiatrist at Mill View of MIT no circumspection with regards the very controversial diagnostic criteria for mental health disorders. Privately psychiatrist will often admit that this is basically guesswork, that the criteria are somewhat arbitrary and other means of categorising human behaviour rather than the documentation of our understanding of the human being. Yet psychiatrist pretend they have an exact science at their disposal. 4. I requested my medical notes and saw blatant errors in the interpretation of my behaviours which form the basis for my treatment and diagnosis. Even though they were obvious errors when I challenge them I was told I was not able to have my medical notes rectified. 5. They see the diagnosis rather than the human being; the task of understanding the patient is not one taken seriously by the psychiatrist. 6. Ambulance world, and infinity of psychiatrists. They say the lines that define me. To be sure; No Psychiatrist Lies.

Reply from Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:53:37 +0100

Dear Jane Thank you very much for posting your comments about Caburn Ward. I have passed then to the ward manager Phil and the Clinical Nurse Manager Lauren to share with the team there. We are all really glad that you had a good experience of the care they work hard to deliver and wish you well kind regards Rachael Kenny Participation Team Sussex Partnership