[2] Patient abuse and neglect may occur in settings such as hospitals,[4] nursing homes,[5] clinics[6] and during home-based care.
[7] Health professionals who abuse patients may be deemed unfit to practice and have their medical license removed[8]: 20 as well as facing criminal charges as well as civil cases.
[13] Andrew Phelvin draws comparison between the institutional abuse at the Winterbourne View in the UK and the Iraq Abu Ghraib torture case and Stanford prison experiment citing Philip Zimbardo.
They also suggest an approach that pays attention to human rights, and positive risk taking, leadership focused on providing feedback and monitoring good practice rather than administration, reflective practice, and encouraging a "low arousal" environment where staff modify their body language and perception of situations to reduce arousal in an environment.
[16]: 112 Between 1983 and 1993 a large number of adults with learning difficulties at the Longcare residential home in Slough were beaten, verbally abused, drugged, indecently assaulted and raped.
[18] In 2022 another BBC investigation found a "toxic culture of humiliation, verbal abuse and bullying" at the Greater Manchester HNS Ednenfield site, resulting in a number of staff sackings.