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The A&E where security guards deal with up to 20 mental health patients daily

"We've got two," explains Emer Szczygiel, emergency department head of nursing at King George Hospital, as she walks inside a pastel coloured room.  "If I had my time back again, we would probably have four, five, or six because these have helped us so much in the department with the really difficult patients." On one wall, there's floral wallpaper.

It is scored through with a graffiti scrawl. The words must have been scratched out with fingernails.

There are no other implements in here. Patients being held in this secure room would have been searched to make sure they are not carrying anything they can use to harm themselves - or others.

There is a plastic bed secured to the wall. No bedding though, as this room is "ligature light.

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