colin hughes is a former mental health nurse., training the mental health staff over the future. he says generally, the policy should be that such important decisions are made by a team. the patient may have said, well, i want my shoelaces back or i want my belt back. and that would be discussed within the team environment, and the team should make that decision. i personally would not want to be the one individual to make that decision. the report also uncovered another issue which led the police to start investigating the apparent falsification of records around shaun's care. around sean's ca re. shaun and other bluestone patients were supposed to be observed once in every 15 minute period. it's a common policy in many psychiatric hospitals. last year when i worked undercover at the eden field psychiatric hospital in england, i saw bad practices there, including failures to carry out those regular checks. are these patients supposed to be checked on every 15 minutes? i've been inside here for 35 minutes. the observations are al