Centre for Mental Health -
According to this report, an overhaul of mental health care is needed to achieve the Government’s goal of shifting treatment from hospitals to communities. It finds that inpatient care is too often characterised by unsafe levels of bed occupancy, chronic staffing shortages and dilapidated facilities which risk re-traumatising patients. Black people, neurodivergent people and children are among the most poorly served. It concludes that the NHS ten-year plan must boost investment across the mental health system to drive a ‘safe and sustained shift’ towards community care, and to provide inpatient care which is high quality, close to home and adequately staffed.