Sunday Telegraph: Mental health in the NHS: ‘My son wanted to die; we begged for help but there was none’

1 Comment / Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, NSFT Cuts, Press / By

When Linda Jones received a call from her distraught husband, one cold day in December 2008, to say that their beloved 17-year-old son, Matthew, had committed suicide in his bedroom, she was inconsolable, as any mother would be. But she was not surprised. The despair the Joneses feel at the state of Britain’s mental-health services […]

Sunday Telegraph: Mental health in the NHS: ‘My son wanted to die; we begged for help but there was none’ Read More »

Guardian: NHS mental health care ‘pushed to breaking point by lack of beds’

Leave a Comment / Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, NSFT Cuts, Press, Questions for the Board / By

The lack of acute beds available to mental health patients has left the system at breaking point, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said. Illustrating the scale of the problem, the college said it understood that on one occasion last year there were no beds available for adults in England. It called for action to

Guardian: NHS mental health care ‘pushed to breaking point by lack of beds’ Read More »

Scroll to Top