A free event next month will review the feedback collected by the Restraint, Seclusion and Segregation (RSS) Project from people who have experienced RSS and their carers. The project, led by Advonet and CHANGE, ran questionnaires and collected feedback on people’s experiences of RSS and their suggestions for how to improve the treatment of patients in health and care settings.

The event aims to:

• Show what people have said about RSS anonymously

• Identify themes from the feedback

• Send that feedback to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and parts of the NHS to ensure that changes are made based on that feedback

It is open to people who have experienced restraint, seclusion and segregation in health and care settings and their parents/carers. It is open to people who live anywhere in England.

If you have any questions about what the event will involve, please email Ellen Dimuantes, RSS Project Coordinator, at rssproject@advonet.org.uk or call the Advonet office on 0113 244 0606 and ask for Ellen.

There is still time left to contribute to the questionnaires for the RSS Project.

This is your chance to influence the future direction of Segregation, Seclusion and Restraint. Your feedback will be included in an independent report to the Department of Health and inform its review.

There is one for people with lived experience, which can be found at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/rssquestionnaire

There is also one for carers, which is at this link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/rssquestionnairecarers