Monday 6 March 2017

Number of mental health patients treated hundreds of miles from home hits new high

Number of mental health patients treated hundreds of miles from home hits new high Mental health services for the most seriously ill patients are in “crisis”, experts have warned, with increasing numbers of people being sent hundreds of miles away from home to receive treatment - despite government promises to end the practice.

An analysis of official statistics shows mental health patients in England were sent for “out-of-area” treatment on 2,037 occasions in the four months to January 2017 alone. More patients were in treatment away from their home area in January than at any point since the data began being collected last year. The Independent

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