Seventy children are treated at A&E for mental illness every day, four times as many as ten years ago, and shocking statistics unveiled 26,582 under 18s were rushed to casualty units in England and treated for psychiatric problems in the year to the close of April. The year before it was 22 per cent lower,Continue reading “Britain’s Shame”
Category Archives: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
NHS Bed Shortage
Children suffering a mental health crisis are still being sent hundreds of miles from home because of a deficiency of NHS beds, and one defenceless child was sent to a unit more than 300 miles from home, and another child was located 285 miles away from their family by NHS Herts Valley in Hertfordshire. AroundContinue reading “NHS Bed Shortage”
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 