Push to publish full report on Carseview

Health secretary Jeane Freeman has been urged to make sure an internal report on treatment at a Scottish mental health unit is published in full.

BBC Scotland has claimed leaked copies of NHS Tayside’s internal inquiry into the Carseview Centre in Dundee show it found untrained staff were using risky restraints on patients and the number of incidents in which restraints were used was high.

NHS Tayside said it was acting on the recommendations in the internal assessment and plans to reduce restraint use, but stressed “our median rates of violence and restraint do not make us an outlier with other mental health services in Scotland”.

Mental health minister Clare Haughey said the health board was required to deal with a number of recommendations from the report at a local level.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: “Experts and whistle-blowers have raised serious concerns about this behaviour.”