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Mirror (31st December 2022) Private mental health firms paid £1million a day by NHS as 40% need safety ‘improvement’
The Guardian (4th July 2022) Woman suffering mental health crisis left waiting eight days in A&E
The Guardian (22nd May 2022) Record 420,000 children a month in England treated for mental health problems
The Guardian (25th April 2022) The Guardian view on mental health privatisation: unsafe spaces
The Guardian (25th April 2022) Private mental health hospitals repeatedly criticised for unsafe care
The Guardian (25th April 2022) ‘How did I let her go there?’: mother laments daughter’s private hospital death
The Guardian (24th April 2022) ‘Woeful scarcity’: NHS psychiatrist decries lack of mental health beds
The Guardian (24th April 2022) NHS paying £2bn a year to private hospitals for mental health patients
The Guardian (3rd April 2022) Swamped NHS mental health services turning away children, say GPs
The Lowdown (9th March 2022) Policy of underfunding and outsourcing fails mental health patients
The Lowdown (20th February 2022) Overwhelming inequalities affect minority ethnic people in NHS
Health Service Journal (17th February 2022) ‘Unprecedented numbers’ sent hundreds of miles for a bed
The Lowdown (6th February 2022) Low NHS capacity in mental health leaves it beholden to private companies
Health Service Journal (17th January 2022) Care of those with personality disorders has been privatised
The Guardian (23rd September 2021) Children’s NHS mental health referrals double in pandemic