Surge of jailed children The process of finding a psychiatric bed for the most severely disordered children is even worse than that for adult prisoners, which we described yesterday.
One patient, Lucy Bowden, reported how she wandered around the grounds of her emergency department until the police picked her up, locked her in their van and used an emergency section of the Mental Health Act to make finding a bed a legal necessity.
It's not easy finding a bed.
Amid an NHS mental-health bed shortage crisis, if finding a doctor was hard, finding a bed felt impossible – they are like gold dust.
We had a crisis in finding a bed for a lady with MDRTB [Multiple Drug Resistant TB].
As a consequence, the time consuming procedure of finding an inpatient bed is started at a later point in time.
Given the difficulty of finding a room with a queen-size bed and private bath for under $100 on short notice in summer, I was surprised to find a cheap room available at the Orca Inn on the edge of town ($62.95 before tax).
Once patients were seen, there was often a "bottleneck" in the task of finding an available ward bed for them, inspectors said, and once they were admitted many patients were moved around the hospital too often.
An inventor of items like a periscope for watching television while lying flat in bed, she dreams of finding a high-rolling Las Vegas investor for her dubious schemes.
Well this is kind of like that, but instead of finding a traffic cone in my kitchen I found a family of homeless Romanian immigrants in my bed.
