One on One Jan Pfeiffer - striving to reform outdated system of care for mentally ill
Rob Cameron's guest in this week's One on One is Dr Jan Pfeiffer, a psychiatrist and leading advocate of reform for mental health care. As head of the Centre for Mental Health Care Development, Dr Pfeiffer is striving to outlaw such practices as keeping patients in cage or net beds, a practice which has been abandoned in much of the developed world. The Czech Health Ministry recently banned such beds in psychiatric institutions after protests in the international media. But hundreds of them are still used in social care homes, a situation Dr Pfeiffer says is unacceptable.
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