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£19.99Former patients at Skye House, Scotland’s largest children’s psychiatric hospital, were subjected to a culture of cruelty, according to a BBC investigation. The patients who had been teenagers when admitted to Skye House reported being called “pathetic” and “disgusting” by some nursing staff. They also reported nurses mocking their suicide attempts. Patients were physically restrained, dragged down corridors, medicated to the extent that they were left feeling like “walking zombies,” and sometimes even left to clean their own self-harm blood from walls and floors. Some of the patients were often made to feel that they were being treated like animals in the facility.
Skye House, which treats children between the ages of 12 and 18 years, opened in 2009. The programme-makers spoke to 28 former patients while making BBC Disclosure’s Kids on The Psychiatric Ward documentary. Most of the patients are detained under the Mental Health Act and cannot leave until doctors deem them fit for discharge. Patients who had been admitted between 2017 and 2024 described their experiences at the facility, which sits in the Stobhill hospital grounds, as “hell” and accused nursing staff of cruelty.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have launched two inquiries into the allegations uncovered by the BBC investigation. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it was incredibly sorry. The allegations disclosed in the documentary review were difficult to hear, and some of the patient care was below the standard expected by the health board. Since staffing problems led to agency and bank staff working in the facility, which meant they lacked the experience of young people’s complexities being cared for. Therefore, improvements for patient care have been made, including staff recruitment and training of safe-holds.
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland has visited Skye House six times since 2016. None of the issues raised in the investigation feature in
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