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‘Buckling’ NHS fails to treat 250,000 children with mental health problems | Mental health

‘Buckling’ NHS fails to treat 250,000 children with mental health problems | Mental health

A quarter of a million children in the UK with mental health problems have been denied help by the NHS as it struggles to manage surging case loads against a backdrop of a crisis in child mental health. Some NHS trusts are failing to offer treatment to 60{35112b74ca1a6bc4decb6697edde3f9edcc1b44915f2ccb9995df8df6b4364bc} of those referred by GPs, the research based on freedom of information request responses has found. The research carried out by the House magazine and shared with the Guardian also revealed a…

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Millions with mental health needs not seeking NHS help, watchdog says | NHS

Millions with mental health needs not seeking NHS help, watchdog says | NHS

Millions of people in England with mental ill-health are not seeking NHS help, and many who get it face long delays and a “poor experience”, a report says. Long waits for care will persist for years because soaring demand, exacerbated by Covid, will continue to outstrip the ability of severely understaffed mental health services to provide speedy treatment, the National Audit Office (NAO) found. Whitehall’s spending watchdog praised NHS England for expanding the amount of care that patients with psychological…

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