Thursday, 25 October 2018

A&E visits by young people with mental health problems have almost doubled in five years

A&E visits by young people with mental health problems have almost doubled in five years The number of young people going to A&E with mental health problems has almost doubled in five years, official figures show.

In response to a Parliamentary Question from Bambos Charalambous MP, the Department of Health and Social Care has revealed that, in 2017-18, there were 27,487 attendances in A&E by young people aged 18 or under with a recorded diagnosis of a psychiatric condition.

This figure has almost doubled since 2012-13, when there were 13,800 equivalent attendances, and almost tripled since 2010. The Independent

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