Mental health ward for children told to improve

The use of physical restraint on children at Edinburgh's inpatient mental health unit needs improvement, a report has said.

- by Stuart Reid

An unannounced inspection of the Melville Unit at the city's Royal Hospital for Children and Young People was carried out in May.

The report said the use of nasogastric tube feeding under restraint "requires further inquiry and improvement by the service".

The 12-bed unit cares for young people aged between 12 and 17 with a number of mental health conditions.