Searches
This section contains useful documents on policy and good practice for searching patients and their property in healthcare settings.
| Title: Searches - whole document part 1 Summary: Searching hospital inpatients and their property within the mental health and learning disability units. Introduction, Practice statement, References. | |
| Title: Searches - whole document part 2 Summary: Protocol for Removal of dangerous weapons, Vigilance, Action in an emergency, Admissions and potential admissions, Risk assessment, Refusing consent to a search, Action taken following substances/weapons being removed, Visitors to the site, Interviewing clients on trust property, Interviewing clients in their own home. | |
| Title: Searches 2 whole document Published: August 2006 Summary: Policy on the searching of detained patients. This policy identifies and discusses the key practice and issues surrounding undertaking searches both of individuals and environments within the mental health inpatient settings of hospital. | |
| Title: Searching Patients Property Published: December 2005 Summary: Searching premises, patients and/or their property for offensive weapons, unprescribed drugs, alcohol and unsafe items in inpatient settings. This policy describes the action staff in the Care Trust should take when considering conducting a premises search, a personal search of a patient and/or their belongings. |