Mental health crisis: patients left for days in A&E as hospitals struggle to cope
Mental health patients in crisis are spending days and days in England’s emergency departments before getting appropriate care.
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The data obtained by Channel 4 News is backed up by figures shared exclusively with this programme by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, showing these patients are twice as likely to wait more than 12 hours to be discharged or transferred than all other patients.
And the number of mental health beds has more than halved over the last two decades.
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29 Comments
Mental health is caused by the rich they have run the workers into the ground for cooperate greed.
Yes its common where am in uk before covid and dince for at least a ten hour wait at a+e snd often a 25 hour wait there is a dpecislist 0800 hrlp line number but its as i call it tea and biscuits soothing sYing ehat can you do tonight to take uour mind off things if you phone samaritans there great the best, butdu
Around 10 years ago, i had ptsd as a result of a s. Assault. I was often having thoughts of ending it or ending my attacker. The only people i could speak to were a "crisis" team over the phone. Often, they would refer me to a+e as it was an "emergency". The a+e staff were not at all equiped to deal with me and would kick me out. On one occasiob they made up that i had attacked a staff member and security had to check the cctv to clear me. I didnt recieve "care" on a single occasion. NHS needs to be transparent that they do not have these facilities and you should not go to a+e.
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Life never gives you more than you ask ❤
I blame Austerity
AUSTRALIA LUCKY TO HAVE CHINESE MONEY TO FUND THEIR HEALTH SYSTEM
Austerity+ 2 child limit benefits + weak NHS + long NHS waiting lists
Who could of predicted this would happen
No mental asylums in GB either, huh?
Bless that girl, you can see how sad her eyes are
Oh my god x god bless
Unbelievable
Yes, they do all the mental health behaviour not treated. Still happening. Who is doing something about it?
What A Joke
UK is experiencing mental health crisis due to the government
Its no difference in a private hospital in Central London. One private hospital is very unsafe. Just for the sake of business they employ a staff with bad records of safety. Patients were not aware that they are unsafe in that hospital because the management is covering up for that nurse .
Church
They should make a ward for people like myself who suffer from mental health.
111nhs not helf
I remember trying to get to a psychologist or psychiatrist was nigh on impossible when I was there…god don't take you seriously when you go to them about MH issues…
It's not just mental health. The over all health care, if that is what it can even be called has been neglected by our leaders whom we pay to run our country properly.
Instead of looking after our population of Auatralians, they instead are bringing hordes of people in who simply should not be here. Namely illegal invaders, because that is what most are.
Then you have the migrants on top of that too.
This all puts a drain on our housing and health service. Then on top of all this demise sits the all mighty $$$$ worth much more than a human. But instead, it is much easier blaming covid and other flu issues. What this generation is forgetting, is…… One day "YOU" may get chronically ill and older. What will it be like for you then? This is only the stary of it.
got no men low tally
RIP Marie ❤ 🕊️
The shallow ,alienated toxic British Society is reaping what it has sown
I waited 12 hours in a and e after they found me a bed.
“Some of these children display very childish behavior” a real quote from a medical doctor
I predicted this would happen. Mental health needs its own department not the current one. Doctors aren't therapists
The OPMH are keeping my mother from a higher dosage of medication, even though they know she is well on higher dosages and which could be decreased after a month or so. They made their initial decision to put down her dosage before seeing her ( I have a recording of a phone-conversation with a surgery who confirmed that the decision had been put through earlier than my mother's appointment that day). The decision to put down her dosage instead of up was based on false information I had put through that there had been no reason for a relapse; however, I then remembered that the day of her relapse she was going to see whether her tom-cat would die (we were uncertain) and leading up to this the mother of the tom had died. Despite all of this evidence, they continue to keep my mother on a low dosage. I have video-footage showing my mother well on a higher dosage from when we (my mother and I) increased it ourselves and the difference is major. On the low dosage, she is still ill; on the higher dosage, nothing wrong. It is DPT who is behind this protection-racket for the OPMH who are causing my mother injury. And likewise, it is Devon County Council who fund DPT. We are in Devon, in Teignbridge. Because surgeries get paid to endorse the OPMH, they will not go against them – these are no real doctors surgeries.
There are just no beds in the UK for mental health patients. We used to have 65000 acute beds in the UK. Now we are down to less than 18000. The cuts have been horrendous.