Lives at risk over mental health crisis as hospitals break urgent bed rule | Mirror Online
Despair: a lack of emergency hospital beds – due to Covid-19? – has had a knock-on effect on people who are mentally-ill, leading to deaths.
This is information I found before having to work on the Riley lawsuit.
The underlying story is clear: people with mental illnesses are being indirectly threatened by government/health service policy during the Covid-19 crisis; they are considered expendable – or they are not considered at all.
The Conservatives in government have known that the NHS was not prepared for a pandemic illness like Covid-19 since Operation Cygnus reported that such an event would overwhelm the health service. That was in 2016/17. They did nothing.
Now the consequences are making themselves felt. And it seems the Tories aren’t bothered. Why should they be?
They aren’t suffering.
A lack of emergency hospital beds for the mentally ill has led to one killing and a spate of suicides, an investigation reveals.
The tragedies happened after patients were turned away because NHS bosses failed to follow legislation to admit urgent cases immediately.
The British Medical Association probe found some had to wait up to a month for hospital admission – and many of the Clinical Commissioning Groups responsible for carrying out the Mental Health Act rule did not record the long waiting times.
In one case, paranoid schizophrenia sufferer Kierran Fletcher, 29, killed a grandad in a frenzied attack.
It was 24 hours after Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust put him in a queue with 23 others.
Coroners linked 11 deaths in a year, including suicides, to pressures on the Trust’s mental health services.
Source: Lives at risk over mental health crisis as hospitals break urgent bed rule – Mirror Online
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