Please find below NAPICU’s previous “Hot Topic Editiorals”
April 2022 -National guidance for transfer of prisoners to PICUs
September 2021- A nurse-led psychiatric intensive care unit: 25 years on
September 2020 – Acute mental health care during a pandemic: problems and progress
April 2020 – NAPICU Guidance: Introducing COVID-19 and acute disturbance
September 2019- PICUs problems and progress: what matters?
April 2019 – Restrictive Interventions and Seclusion
September 2018 – Multidisciplinary management of acute disturbance.
April 2018 – Searching for contraband and finding answers in a PICU.
September 2017 – Seclusion What’s in a name?
September 2016 – The PICU personality without disorder.
April 2016 – Funding for mental health care.
August 2014 – Mechanical restraint and seclusion earning a place at the debating table.
April 2014 – Acute mental health care; lessons from opera and Iceland
August 2013 – Behind the Locked Door
April 2013 – Clusters garlands or bouquets?
August 2012 – Responding to acute crisis ways and means.
April 2012 – Hard times in low security and psychiatric intensive care.
December 2011 – Risk assessment reflection and future.
December 2010 – Profiling medium secure psychiatric intensive care unit patients.
June 2010 – Will Bradley lead us to New Horizons?
December 2009 – Suicide, mental disorder and responsibility.
December 2008 – UK low secure units in the spotlight.
June 2007 – Psychiatric Intensive Care – What’s in a name.
June 2006 – Integration and specialism complementary not contradictory.
December 2005 – Informal patients in secure wards restriction of movement or liberty.