500 NHS mental health patients to spend Christmas miles from home Approximately 500 patients with serious mental health problems are being forced to stay in NHS facilities more than 60 miles from home, new analysis reveals.
The figure is more than double that of the same month three years ago, and comes amid a bed shortage and staffing crisis.
The data also reveals that the amount of time mental health patients are spending away from home is going up, with three times as many projected to spend the whole of December in a so-called out-of-area placement compared to 2016. The Daily Telegraph
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