Thousands of mental health patients spend years on secure wards

Thousands of mental health patients spend years on secure wards 

Critics condemn ‘Victorian approach’ to treatment after NHS watchdog reveals 3,500 patients are kept locked in.
Thousands of mental health patients are being kept in secure wards for years at a time when they should be being rehabilitated and preparing to leave hospital, a NHS watchdog has revealed. The Guardian

See also:

• 40 per cent of mental health units out of date or unsafe Mail Online
• 'Too many' patients locked in for mental health care BBC News