JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
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Tory cuts are causing a mental-healthcare crisis
TONY ROBERTS and RUTH HUNT take a look at how patients are continually being let down by a system that should be there to support them
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THE Tories’ tinkering with the Mental Health Act won’t solve the many problems in the disintegrating mental-health system.
The chronic underinvestment in mental healthcare is evident when in just one month last year 745 patients had to travel out of their local area simply to get a bed, with NHS patients often farmed out to private providers at premium cost.
This is a cost the system can ill afford, with mental health taking up to 23 per cent of NHS activity, yet the funding allocated for mental health is just a quarter of that.
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