P-05-812 We call for the Welsh Government to encourage trusts to implement the NICE guidelines for Borderline Personality Disorder or justify why they do not do so
This petition was submitted by Keir Harding and was first considered by the Committee in May 2018, having collected 812 signatures.
Text of Petition
No Longer A Diagnosis of Exclusion, a document that highlighted the
mistreatment of those diagnosed with personality disorder was
published in 2003.
The NICE guidelines for Borderline Personality Disorder were
published in 2009. 9 years on less than half of Welsh trusts
provide services that comply with the guidelines. This compares to
84% of trusts in England.
People with this diagnosis have frequently come from backgrounds of
maltreatment, neglect and abuse.
1 in 10 people with this diagnosis will die by suicide.
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide found
that of the 1 in 10 people who ended their lives over the period of
their study, none were receiving NICE recommended care.
Experts in the field warn that trusts without specialist services
will be over reliant on out of area private treatment. This view
was supported by representatives of trusts without specialist
services at the Personality Disorder Cymru conference in Cardiff in
2016.
We must to more to support the survivors of abuse who have been let
down enough already.
We must do more to protect the Welsh tax payer by providing
effective community services rather than expensive out of area
placements.
We call for the Welsh Government to direct trusts to implement the
NICE guidelines for Borderline Personality Disorder or justify why
they do not do so.
Assembly Constituency and Region
· Wrexham
· North Wales