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People with mental health problems are receiving ‘substandard care’, MPs complained this week in a report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health.
Two months ago the media briefly frissoned another dark story from our NHS: seven recent suicides and one homicide amongst acutely mentally ill patients who had been told no psychiatric beds were available for them.