Patient Safety

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 12:35 pm on 24 June 2014.

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Photo of Ben Bradshaw Ben Bradshaw Labour, Exeter 12:35, 24 June 2014

An Exeter psychiatric nurse of more than 20 years’ standing wrote to me in despair this week saying that

“mental health services are in collapse”,

and that patients are regularly placed in “life threatening” situations or sent as far away as Bradford because there are no beds locally. Vulnerable people are waiting a shocking three months for the co-ordination of their care. How dare the Secretary of State come to the House today and claim that our mental health services are not in crisis?