Five people made 8,655 calls to the Metropolitan Police in 2017 for mental health related incidents. This has cost £70,000 to answer. A watchdog for police in England and Wales released the figure to show how police have become a default service to deal with people that have mental health. The mental health system is…
In the last seven years, the number of boys admitted to hospitals in Britain have doubled. In 2010 there was 235 boys in hospital, but this year there has already been 466. These figures are from NHS Digital. Eating disorders are one of the biggest mental health issues for young people in the UK and…
More than 450 patients died between 1987 and 2007 after being prescribed a dangerous dose of pain-killing drugs. Matt Hancock said he would strengthen protection for staff whistle-blowers. Whistle-blowers is a person who informs a person/organisation engaged in forbidden by law activity. In the Commons statements, he said there had been a “systematic failure to…
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