by Christie Bailey March 27, 2025

The use of strong sedative injections on dementia patients is meant to be a last resort – a medical backstop used only when all other options to calm a distressed patient have failed.

But it has now emerged that this powerful and “outdated” method of tranquilisation was being used with what charity leaders described as alarming frequency on patients in Jersey’s General Hospital, sparking serious safety concerns and prompting a major crackdown by health officials last year, including a new drug monitoring system and extra training.

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